Adrian Stokes (critic)
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- This article is not about the painter Adrian Scott Stokes
Adrian Stokes (27 October 1902 – 15 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
