THE CORAL MIND: ADRIAN STOKES'S ENGAGEMENT WITH ARCHITECTURE, ART HISTORY, CRITICISM, AND PSYCHOANALYSIS

BANN, Stephen (Ed.), Alex Potts, Stephen Kite, Peter Leech, Et Al

ISBN 10: 0271029706 / ISBN 13: 9780271029702

Published by The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, 2007

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Large 8vo. viii, 230. Colour illustrated covers. Illustrated in colour and black and white. ISBN: 9780271029702 Very good minus, light bump to head of spine and fading at spine and portion of front cover. Top edge of pages slightly toned. Seller Inventory # C67113

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Title: THE CORAL MIND: ADRIAN STOKES'S ENGAGEMENT ...

Publisher: The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park

Publication Date: 2007

Binding: Hardcover

Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis:

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 Paris—from 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.

The essays in The Coral Mind make Stokes required reading for anyone with a serious interest in British modernism; psychoanalysis and art; alternatives to Clement Greenberg’s account of modernism; the relevance of architecture, sculpture, and ballet to our understanding of twentieth-century art; “writerly” art criticism; and the concept of “research” in art history.

Contributors include David Carrier, Martin Golding, Michael Ann Holly, David Hulks, Étienne Jollet, Stephen Kite, Peter Leech, Alex Potts, Richard Read, Janet Sayers, Lyndsey Stonebridge, and Paul Tucker.

About the Author:

Stephen Bann is Professor of Art History at the University of Bristol and was President of the Comité International d'Histoire de l'Art from 2000 to 2004. His books include Ways Around Modernism (2007), Parallel Lines: Printmakers, Painters, and Photographers in 19th-Century France (2001), Paul Delaroche: History Painted (1997), and The True Vine: On Visual Representation and the Western Tradition (1989).