The Image in Form: Selected Writings of Adrian Stokes

340 Pages·1972·19.479 MB·English

by  Adrian Stokes, Richard Wollheim

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Selected Writings of
Adrian Stokes
Edited by Richard Wollheim

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The Form
Image
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Selected Writings of
Adrian Stokes
Edited and with an introduction
by Richard Wollheim
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Contents
List of Illustrations 7
Sources 8
Introduction by Richard Wollheim 9
The Nature of Art, I: ‘The Quattro Cento’
1. ‘The Quattro Cento’ 35
2. The Love of Stone 36
3. Mass and Mass-Effect 38
4. The Emblematic 42
The Nature of Art, II: Carving and Tainting
5. Carving and Modelling 47
6. Stone-and-Water 48
Colour and ‘Otherness’ 50
7.
8. Colour as Medium 52
9. Identity-in-Difference 55
The Nature of Art, III: Art and Vsychoanalysis
10. Art and the Sense of Rebirth 67
1 1 The Luxury and Necessity of Painting 78
.
12. The Two Approaches 98
13. The Invitation in Art 101
14. Art and the Body 116
15. From ‘The Image in Form’ 123
Artists and Works of Art
16. Ghiberti and ‘Finish’ 13
17. Donatello 134
18. Piero della Francesca 138
11 1
19- Verrocchio and Piero della Francesca in the National
Gallery 14
20. The Reliefs in the Tempio Malatestiano, Rimini 147
21. Giorgione and the Tempesta 184
22. Michelangelo 193
23. Turner 21
24. Cezanne 236
23. Cezanne’s Les Baigneuses, and Two Other Pictures in the
National Gallery 243
26. Monet 230
Places
27. Venice 263
28. Genoa 281
29. Ports 284
Autobiographical
30. Childhood 289
31. Cornwall and the Sense of Home 31
32. Living in Ticino, 1947-30 314
List oj Illustrations (following page 160)
Luciano Laurana, Courtyard of the Ducal Palace, Urbino
1.
(photo Felicitas Vogler)
2. Donatello, Cantoria Museo dell’Opere del Duomo,
,
Florence, detail (photo Mansell Collection)
3. Piero della Francesca, The Annunciation San Francesco,
,
Arezzo, detail (photo Mansell Collection)
4. Piero della Francesca, The Flagellation, Gallery, Urbino,
detail (photo Istituto Centrale del Restauro, Archivio
Fotografico, Rome)
Verrocchio, Madonna and Child with Angels, National
5.
Gallery, London (photo National Gallery)
6. Piero della Francesca, Baptism, National Gallery, London
(photo National Gallery)
Donatello, Dead Christ with Angels, Victoria and Albert
7.
Museum, London (photo Victoria and Albert Museum)
8. Agostino di Duccio, Madonna and Child with Angels,
Victoria and Albert Museum, London (photo Victoria and
Albert Museum)
9. Agostino di Duccio, Influxion Caused by the Moon, Tempio
Malatestiano, Rimini (photo Mansell Collection)
10. Giorgione, Tempesta, Accademia, Venice (photo
Anderson)
11. Giorgione, Tempesta, detail (photo Anderson)
12. Michelangelo, Rondanini Vieta, Museo d’Arte Antica,
Castella Sforza, Milan
13. Michelangelo, Slave or Captive, Accademia,
Florence (photo Alinari)
14. Michelangelo, Crucifixion (drawing), Ashmolean Museum,
Oxford (photo Ashmolean Museum)
15. Cezanne, Les Baigneuses, National Gallery, London (photo
National Gallery)
16. Rembrandt, Belshazzar's Feast, National Gallery, London
(photo National Gallery)
Sources
The excerpts in this volume have been taken from:
The Quattro Cento, Faber & Faber, 1932
Stones of Rimini, Faber & Faber, 1934
Colour and Form, Faber & Faber, 1937: revised edition, 1930
Venice: An Aspect of Art, Faber & Faber, 1943
&
Inside Out, Faber Faber, 1947
Art and Science, Faber & Faber, 1949
Smooth and Rough, Faber & Faber, 1931
Michelangelo, Tavistock Press, 1933
Monet, Faber & Faber, in the ‘Faber Gallery’ series, 1938
Three Essays on the Tainting of Our Time, Tavistock, 1961
Painting and the Inner World, Tavistock, 1963
The Invitation in Art, Tavistock, 1963
Reflections on the Nude, Tavistock, 1967
The essay ‘Living in Ticino, 1947-30’ was first printed in Art and
March
Literature, 1964
Stones of Rimini and The Quattro Cento have been published
recently in the United States by Schocken Press, and The Invita-
tion in Art by the Chilmark Press.
Certain minor alterations have been made in the text specially
for this collection by the author. Thanks are due to the Tavi-
stock Press for their kind permission to reprint; also to the Chii-
mark
Press.