Expressing a Plastic Sense with Words: Influence of RogerFry’s Design Aesthetics on Virginia Woolf’s Novel Experiments(PDF)
《南京师大学报》(社会科学版)[ISSN:1006-6977/CN:61-1281/TN]
- Issue:
- 2015年01期
- Page:
- 139-146
- Research Field:
- 外国文学研究
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- Title:
- Expressing a Plastic Sense with Words: Influence of RogerFry’s Design Aesthetics on Virginia Woolf’s Novel Experiments
- Author(s):
- YANG Li-xin
- Keywords:
- Virginia Woolf; Roger Fry; Paul Cezanne; visual art; plastic design
- PACS:
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- DOI:
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- Abstract:
- The modernist novels written by Virginia Woolf are deeply influenced by the visual art theory raised by Roger Fry, a great British art critic. Fry paid great attention to form and design, holding that artists should deploy lines, colors and masses to endow the overall structure of a picture with stability, harmony and order. He was pleasantly surprised to find real models which suit his artistic pursuit from French post-impressionist painter Paul Cezanne’s works. Under the influence of Fry and Cezanne, Woolf relentlessly pursued structure design and space construction in her novels.
Last Update: 2015-02-28