Art and Its Discontents: The Early Life of Adrian Stokes

by Richard Read

This title was first published in 2002. Adrian Stokes (1902-1972) wrote some of the most engaging and provocative art criticism of the twentieth century. He was a prolific author publishing books on the Renaissance, among them The Quattro Cento and Stones of Rimini (recently reissued), on ballet, and on the work of contemporary Modernist artists. Stokes entered psychoanalysis with Melanie Klein in 1929 in an attempt to resolve some of the quandaries...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138719560
• ISBN13: 9781138719569
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Routledge