How does Bell relate to the Hume and Tolstoy points of view?
Clive Bell has a lot of similarities with both Hume and Tolstoy. Like Tolstoy, Clive Bell believes that the emotion behind art, is what makes it true and that those feelings, those shared emotions will bring people together. Also like Hume, Bell believes that society has been tricked into believing in false arts, for Bell it is representational art. Only people who are sensitive can find the true art, just like Hume's true critic. Bell's aesthetic emotion is a form a pure ecstasy that can come from only pure and correct understanding of an art. Like Hume, Bell believes that what people feel about art is true to them no matter what, however it is not the truth for society as a whole.
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