Refusing to play Vasari: Roger Fry’s Cézannian anecdotes
This paper explores Roger Fry’s monograph Cézanne: A Study of His Development (1927) in light of the author’s strong resistance to, and strategic use of, an anecdotal approach to art history. Writing a decade before Kris and Kurz identified the anecdote as the ‘primitive cell’ of artists’ biographie...
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Department of Art History, University of Birmingham
2020-12-01
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| Series: | Journal of Art Historiography |
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| Online Access: | https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/harvey1.pdf |