Virginia woolf biography of roger fry article
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“Do Not Touch”: The Masculine Artist as Homemaker in Virginia Woolf’s Roger Fry: A Biography
Jadavpur University
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This article demonstrates how Virginia Woolf presents her subject, the artist and art critic Roger Fry, as a masculine artist and homemaker and a progressive model for masculinity in Roger Fry: A Biography (1939). For Virginia Woolf, Roger Fry was a figure she could portray as an ideal feminist man whose presence signaled a radical break from Victorian bourgeois patriarchy as well as from the masculinist mores of inter-war High Modernism. Insofar as her choices as a biographer dovetail with her vision for a feminist modernity, they have important implications for understanding the limits of her feminism. Fry’s apparently pioneering masculinity and the communities it engenders remain dependent on, first, exclusions and appropriations of the aesthetic traditions and labor of subaltern figures, and, second, denying the position of modernist subject to working-class women. Hence, there are parallel implications for Woolf’s feminism, given that Woolf’s conception of creative space for the artist swings between a shared space for collaboration and an inviolable private space for creation. Thus, the paper examines why W
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