Art and Analysis
An Adrian Stokes Reader
Published on 9. September 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-1-78220-118-2 (ISBN)
Description
This edition is an introductory selection from the writings of Adrian Stokes (1902-1972), the Kleinian aesthete who created a unique vision of the relation between psychoanalysis, art, and aesthetic experience in general. His approach was founded initially on his travels in Italy which then acquired a more formal theoretical foundation during his analysis with Melanie Klein. Stokes was a close friend of leading figures in both psychoanalytic and artistic-literary circles, including Richard Wollheim who organised a previous edition of extracts, The Image in Form. The present edition concentrates specifically on the writing that demonstrates the parallels between art and psychoanalysis.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 147 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-78220-118-2 (9781782201182)
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Persons
Meg Harris Williams, a writer and artist, studied English at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford and art at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, and has had a lifelong psychoanalytic education. She has written and lectured extensively in the UK and abroad on psychoanalysis and literature, and teaches at the Tavistock Centre in London, and the University of Surrey. She is married with four children and lives in Farnham, Surrey.
Content
AcknowledgementsAbout the authorsIntroduction by Meg Harris Williams1 The quest for sanity The arts of life The power to communicate Relating to the object (with Donald Meltzer) Inner truth and outer space The image of sanity Form and wholeness Contemplative states2 Art and the inner world Painting and the inner world Absorption and attention All art is of the body Weighty articulation and hazy presences The art of appreciation The artist and the art appreciator (with Donald Meltzer)3 Modes of art and modes of being Carving and modelling Michelangelo's sonnet Pregnant shapes Identity in difference The evening light Oneness and otherness Classic synthesis The line of equivalence The invitation in art4 Mother art Integrity of the outward object Concreted time Myth, stone and water The flux of feelings objectified Accumulated sea-change The feel of our structure5 Close looking Piero's perspective: art and science Giorgione: catastrophic change Turner: beneficence in space6 Construction of the good mother Inside Out: an autobiographical narrative EnvoiAppendix 1 by Donald MeltzerAppendix 2 by Eric RhodeReferences and bibliographyIndex