Clive Bell's influential treatise arguing that the defining property of art is significant form — formal arrangements that produce a distinct aesthetic emotion independent of representational content.
Articulates aesthetic formalism: the value of art lies entirely in its formal properties; representation and expression are aesthetically irrelevant.
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