Art and its discontents : the early life of Adrian Stokes

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Label

Art and its discontents : the early life of Adrian Stokes

Title remainder

the early life of Adrian Stokes

Statement of responsibility

Richard Read

Creator

• Read, Richard, 1951-

Subject

• Art critics -- Great Britain -- Biography
• Biographies
• Stokes, Adrian, 1902-1972

Genre

• Biographies
• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

"Adrian Strokes (1902-72) wrote some of the most engaging and provocative art criticism of the twentieth century. Stokes's work emerged from a rich dialogue between the legacy of Ruskin and Pater, and intense engagement with the Italian Renaissance, the writings and art of the European modernists (including friends such as Ezra Pound, Barbara Hepworth, and Ben Nicholson), and psychoanalytic theory. In this, the first sustained examination of Stokes's writings, Richard Read investigates how his work transformed English aesthetics when he became the first critical writer in Britain convincingly to relate psychoanalytic theory to art."--BOOK JACKET

Biography type

individual biography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 700/.92
• B

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

N7483.S76

LC item number

R43 2003

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography