Question

All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art. I do not mean, of course, that all works provoke the same emotion. On the contrary, every work produces a different emotion. But all these emotions are recognizably the same in kind; so far, at any rate, the best opinion is on my side. That there is a particular kind of emotion provoked by works of visual art, and that this emotion is provoked by every kind of visual art, by pictures, sculptures, buildings, pots, carvings, textiles, &c., &c., is not disputed, I think, by anyone capable of feeling it." is a famous writing from;
a. "Bell" by Clive Art
b. "Art" by Clive Bell
c. "Rules" by Clive Stevenson
d. None of the above

Answer 1

Answer:

B.

Explanation:

The given extract is taken from the first chapter of "Art" named "The Aesthetic Hypothesis" by Clive Bell. Arthur Clive Heward Bell was born on 16th Sept, 1881. He was an Art critic and Art philosopher.

In his book "Art," which was published in 1914, he theorized art as a "significant form." He said,  

"These relations and combinations of lines and colours, these aesthetically moving forms, I call ‘Significant Form’; and ‘Significant form’ is the one quality common to all works of visual art."