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Article: Artist, Critic Quentin Bell Dies; Wrote Virginia Woolf Biography
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- The Washington Post
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- December 19, 1996
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Quentin Bell, 86, artist, critic and biographer of his aunt,
Virginia Woolf, died of a heart attack Dec. 16 at his home south of
London.
The son of Woolf's sister Vanessa and the art critic Clive
Bell, Mr. Bell was born into the fabled "Bloomsbury set." That
bohemian, intellectual coterie included the economist John Maynard
Keynes, the writer E.M. Forster, biographer Lytton Strachey and the
painter Duncan Grant, father of Bell's half-sister, Angelica.
Mr. Bell studied art in Paris in the 1930s and staged his
first exhibition in 1935. His first book, "On Human Finery,"
published in 1947, was a study of fashion. Building on social critic
Thorstein Veblen's categories of conspicuous ...