The coral mind : Adrian Stokes's engagement with architecture, art history, criticism, and psychoanalysis / edited by Stephen Bann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bann, Stephen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stokes, Adrian, 1902-1972.

Stokes, Adrian.

Physical Description:

viii, 230 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2007]

Summary:

Our view of modernism in the arts has been largely shaped by the prominence of painting and, in particular, by a succession of major painters working in Parisfrom Courbet and Manet to the Cubists. Moreover, modernist aesthetics has come to be equated with the concept of formalism, which has been both advocated and attacked in the critical roster of the twentieth century. Adrian Stokes offered a singular critical voice challenging us to think differently about modernism. Guided by his personal interpretation of the early Renaissance and by insights derived from psychoanalytic theory, Stokes developed his own style of communicating the truths of aesthetic experience.

Contents:

Introduction / Stephen Bann

Stokes and the architectural basis of the sculptural / Alex Potts

"A deep and necessary commerce": Venice and the "architecture of colour-form" / Stephen Kite

"The house of the mind": on Piero, perspective, and psychoanalysis / Peter Leech

"We are exalted": Adrian Stokes's coming to terms with Michelangelo's massiveness / David Hulks

Stokes's analysis / Richard Read

Portrait of an analyst: Adrian Stokes and Melanie Klein / Lyndsey Stonebridge

Healing art, healing Stokes / Janet Sayers

"Showing openly the inside of action": place, ballet, psychoanalysis / Martin Golding

The art historian as art critic: in praise of Adrian Stokes / David Carrier

"Inferential muscle" and the work of criticism: Michael Baxandall on Adrian Stokes and art-critical language / Paul Tucker

To bring the distant things near: distance in relation to the work of art in Stokes's thought / Etienne Jollet

Stones of solace / Michael Ann Holly.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780271029702

0271029706

OCLC:

76901805