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The Coral Mind: Adrian Stokes´s Engagement with Architecture, Art History, Criticism, and Psychoanalysis
Stephen Bann (Ed.)
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Description for The Coral Mind: Adrian Stokes´s Engagement with Architecture, Art History, Criticism, and Psychoanalysis
Paperback. Editor(s): Bann, Stephen. Series: Refiguring Modernism. Num Pages: 240 pages, 8 colour/21 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 211 x 249 x 18. Weight in Grams: 846.
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, Etienne Jollet, Stephen Kite, Peter Leech, Alex Potts, Richard Read, Janet Sayers, Lyndsey Stonebridge, and Paul Tucker.
Product Details
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Series
Refiguring Modernism
Condition
New
Weight
845g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
University Park, United States
ISBN
9780271029702
SKU
V9780271029702
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About Stephen Bann (Ed.)
Stephen Bann is Professor of Art History at the University of Bristol and was President of the Comite 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).
Reviews for The Coral Mind: Adrian Stokes´s Engagement with Architecture, Art History, Criticism, and Psychoanalysis
Readers who enjoy questioning their own intellectual processes in encounters with created forms will appreciate the mind revealed in these essays. -W.S. Bradley, Choice Guided by honest questions about why and how one reads Stokes today, the essay authors approach the reflections put forth by Stokes from differing perspectives that reveal the complexity of his observations. Stokes's methods of inquiry do not consistently follow the prevailing theoretical approaches of twentieth-century art historical scholarship of iconography, social history, or psychoanalysis, but they converge with all these methodologies in his uniquely subjective response to the space, place, and surface of the art object. Readers who enjoy questioning their own intellectual processes in encounters with created forms will appreciate the mind revealed in these essays. -W. S. Bradley, Choice To the outside world, scholarly activity must often seem exceedingly tedious and of questionable purpose. To those who practice scholarly inquiry, even imperfectly, the prospect of a single mind grasping and engaging its subject with focused intellect can be thrilling. That fascination may explain the revived appreciation of Stokes's writings as records of his intellectual grappling with meaning in art, critical apprehension, and the creative psyche. The Coral Mind is the latest addition to this published appreciation, a collection of 12 intriguing essays on various aspects of Stokes's critical inquiry. Guided by honest questions about why and how one reads Stokes today, the essay authors approach the reflections put forth by Stokes from differing perspectives that reveal the complexity of his observations. Stokes's methods of inquiry do not consistently follow the prevailing theoretical approaches of 20th-century art historical scholarship of iconography, social history, or psychoanalysis, but they converge with all these methodologies in his uniquely subjective response to the space, place, and surface of the art object. Readers who enjoy questioning their own intellectual processes in encounters with created forms will appreciate the mind revealed in these essays. Summing Up: Recommended for graduate students and faculty/researchers. -W. S. Bradley, Choice