THE CORAL MIND: ADRIAN STOKES'S ENGAGEMENT WITH ARCHITECTURE, ART HISTORY, CRITICISM, AND PSYCHOANALYSIS

BANN, Stephen (Ed.), Alex Potts, Stephen Kite, Peter Leech, Et Al

ISBN 10: 0271029706 / ISBN 13: 9780271029702

Published by The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, 2007

About this Item

Large 8vo. viii, 230. Colour illustrated covers. Illustrated in colour and black and white. ISBN: 9780271029702 Very good minus, light bump to head of spine and fading at spine and portion of front cover. Top edge of pages slightly toned. Seller Inventory # C67113

Bibliographic Details

Title: THE CORAL MIND: ADRIAN STOKES'S ENGAGEMENT ...

Publisher: The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park

Publication Date: 2007

Binding: Hardcover

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

The Coral Mind Our view of modernism in the arts has been shaped by the prominence of painting and, in particular, by a succession of painters working in Paris - from Courbet and Manet to the Cubists. This title offers a singular critical voice challenging us to think differently about modernism.

Review:

"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

"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

"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