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Who said that art is a significant form ?

  • A.I. A. Richards
  • B.Clive Bell
  • C.Collingwood
  • D.Suzanne Langer

Answer: B

Clive Bell said that art is significant form. In his book Art (1914) he argued that what separates a work of art from other things is a particular combination of lines, colours and shapes that stirs aesthetic emotion, which he named significant form, whatever the subject depicted.

I. A. Richards is wrong: he is known for literary criticism and a psychological theory of poetry. Collingwood is wrong: his Principles of Art treats art as the expression and clarification of emotion. Suzanne Langer is wrong: she defined art as the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling, not significant form.

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