Shared ideas Bloomsbury Group

1 shared ideas

1.1 philosophy , ethics
1.2 rejection of bourgeois habits
1.3 politics
1.4 art
1.5 world war i

shared ideas

the lives , works of group members show overlapping, interconnected similarity of ideas , attitudes helped keep friends , relatives together, reflecting in large part influence of g. e. moore: essence of bloomsbury drew moore contained in statement 1 s prime objects in life love, creation , enjoyment of aesthetic experience , pursuit of knowledge .

philosophy , ethics

through apostles encountered analytic philosophers g. e. moore , bertrand russell revolutionizing british philosophy @ start of 20th century. distinguishing between ends , means commonplace of ethics, made moore s principia ethica (1903) important philosophical basis of bloomsbury thought moore s conception of intrinsic worth distinct instrumental value. distinction between love (an intrinsic state) , monogamy (a behavior), moore s differentiation between intrinsic , instrumental value allowed bloomsburies maintain ethical high-ground based on intrinsic merit, independent of, , without reference to, consequences of actions. moore, intrinsic value depended on indeterminable intuition of , concept of complex states of mind worth whole not proportionate sum of parts. both moore , bloomsbury, greatest ethic goods importance of personal relationships , private life , aesthetic appreciation: art art s sake .

rejection of bourgeois habits

bloomsbury reacted against current social rituals, bourgeois habits ... conventions of victorian life emphasis on public achievement, in favour of more informal , private focus on personal relationships , individual pleasure. e. m. forster example approved of decay of smartness , fashion factors, , growth of idea of enjoyment , , asserted if had choose between betraying country , betraying friend, hope should have guts betray country .

the group believed in pleasure ... tried maximum of pleasure out of personal relations. if meant triangles or more complicated geometric figures, then, 1 accepted . yet @ same time, shared sophisticated, civilized, , highly articulated ideal of pleasure. virginia woolf put it, triumph in having worked out view of life not means corrupt or sinister or merely intellectual; rather ascetic , austere indeed; still holds, , keeps them dining together, , staying together, after 20 years .

politics

politically, bloomsbury held left-liberal stances (opposed militarism, example); clubs , meetings not activist, political organisations many of bloomsbury s members belonged , , criticised 1930s successors, contrast heavily touched politics bloomsbury had rejected .

the campaign women’s suffrage added controversial nature of bloomsbury, virginia woolf represented group in fictional years , night , day works suffrage movement.

art

roger fry joined group in 1910. post-impressionist exhibitions of 1910 , 1912 involved bloomsbury in second revolution following on cambridge philosophical one. time bloomsbury painters involved , influenced. fry , other bloomsbury artists rejected traditional distinction between fine , decorative art.

these bloomsbury assumptions reflected in members criticisms of materialistic realism in painting , fiction, influenced above clive bell s concept of significant form , separated , elevated concept of form above content in works of art : has been suggested that, focus on form ...bell s ideas have come stand in for, perhaps so, aesthetic principles of bloomsbury group .

the establishment s hostility post-impressionism made bloomsbury controversial, , controversial have remained. clive bell polemicized post-impressionism in read book art (1914), basing aesthetics partly on roger fry’s art criticism , g. e. moore s moral philosophy; , war came argued in these days of storm , darkness, seemed right @ shrine of civilization - in bloomsbury, mean - lamp should tended assiduously .

world war i

old bloomsbury’s development inevitably impacted on, along else in modernist culture, first world war: indeed, small world of bloomsbury later said on outskirts have been irretrievably shattered , though in fact friendships survived upheavals , dislocations of war, in many ways strengthened them . not of them conscientious objectors, of course added group’s controversies. politically members of bloomsbury had liberalism , socialism leanings.

though war dispersed old bloomsbury, individuals continued develop careers. e. m. forster followed successful novels maurice not publish because treated homosexuality untragically. in 1915 virginia woolf brought out first novel, voyage out. , in 1917 woolfs founded hogarth press, publish t. s. eliot, katherine mansfield, , many others including virginia herself along standard english translations of freud. in 1918 lytton strachey published critique of victorianism in shape of 4 ironic biographies in eminent victorians, added arguments bloomsbury continue day, , brought him triumph had longed for ... book sensation .

the following year came j. m. keynes’s influential attack on versailles peace treaty: economic consequences of peace established maynard economist of international eminence .

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