Adrian Stokes (critic)

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This article is not about the painter Adrian Scott Stokes

Adrian Stokes (27 October 190215 December 1972) was a British writer and painter, known principally as an influential art critic. He was also a published poet.

[edit] Works

  • The Thread of Ariadne (1925)
  • Sunrise in the West (1926)
  • The Quattro Cento (1932)
  • The Stones of Rimini (1934)
  • Tonight the Ballet (1934)
  • The Russian Ballets (1935)
  • Colour and Form (1937)
  • Venice. An Aspect of Art (1945)
  • Cezanne (The Faber Gallery, 1947)
  • Inside Out (1947)
  • Art and Science: A Study of Alberti, Piero della Francesca and Giorgione (1949)
  • Smooth and Rough (1951)
  • Michelangelo. A Study in the Nature of Art (1956)
  • Raphael, 1483 – 1520 (Faber Gallery, 1956)
  • Greek Culture and the Ego. A Psychoanalytic Survey of an Aspect of Greek Civilization and of Art (1958)
  • Monet, 1840 - 1926 (Faber Gallery, 1958)
  • Three Essays on the Painting of our Time (1961)
  • Painting and the Inner World (1963) with Donald Meltzer
  • The Invitation in Art (1965)
  • Venice (1965)
  • Reflections on the Nude (1967)
  • The image in form;: Selected writings of Adrian Stokes (1972) edited by Richard Wollheim
  • A Game That Must Be Lost: Uncollected Papers. Adrian Stokes.(1973) edited by Eric Rhode
  • The Critical Writings of Adrian Stokes (1978, 3 volumes) edited by Lawrence Gowing
  • With All the Views: The Collected Poems of Adrian Stokes (1981) edited by Peter Robinson
  • England and Its Aesthetes: Biography and Taste: John Ruskin, Walter Pater: Essays (1997)

[edit] Reference

• Richard Read (2003) Art and its Discontents: The Early Life of Adrian Stokes

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