Article: The art of Bloomsbury: Critical angle.(Brief Article)

THE Bloomsbury Group, an informal coterie of writers, artists and critics who settled early this century in the district of that name in London, has long been in danger of suffocating beneath a slagheap of nostalgia. Two current exhibitions in London--"The Art of Bloomsbury" at the Tate Gallery (until January 30th, and then at American venues) and "Art Made Modern: Roger Fry's Vision of Art" (until January 23rd) at the Courtauld Gallery--do it no favours. Showing the least impressive aspect of the group's output, it raises a recurring question: Was this a bunch of self-absorbed, malicious wits with indifferent talent and, in the words of the sculptor Henry Moore, "a ...

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