The Outwardness of Art

Selected Writings of Adrian Stokes

Thomas Evans, Thomas Evans

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English

Ridinghouse
01 January 2020

Theory of art; Ballet; Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)

Immensely influential, and long beloved by artists, writers and theorists alike, Adrian Stokes (19021972) was at once the last of the great British amateur art writers and as the first art theorist to substantially synthesise aesthetics and psychoanalysis among the first of the moderns.

Since the publication of his groundbreaking books The Quattro Cento and Stones of Rimini in the 1930s, Stokes's writing has enjoyed a readership across disciplines from psychoanalysis to literature and art. Contemporary admirers ranged from Ernst Gombrich to Dore Ashton, Ben Nicholson to Philip Guston, Ezra Pound to John Ashbery reflecting the diverse milieus in which Stokes moved.

And yet it has been nearly 45 years since a broad introduction to his work has been commercially available. In the wake of a recent biography, new critical studies and reprintings of individual books, this volume presents a substantial selection from Stokes's published writings including important posthumously published texts as well as his superb ballet writings of the 1920s highlighting him as a pioneering thinker on art and a virtuoso of the essay form.

AUTHOR: British-born artist Thomas Evans is the author of Furniture without Rest: Introduction to a Pedestrian Thought Theatre. He was previously the editor of poetry magazine Tolling Elves.

SELLING POINTS: .

Adrian Stokes (19021972) was one of the twentieth century's great prose stylists and most nuanced aesthetic theorists .

2022 marks the 50th anniversary of Stokes's death, and 50 years since the last selected writings was published (edited by Richard Wollheim). This book builds on it, offering entire chapters and essays rather than extracts and selections, introducing him to a new audience .

Includes posthumously published material and a broad introduction to Stokes's writing on art and ballet

Edited by: Thomas Evans, Thomas Evans
Imprint: Ridinghouse
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 225mm, Width: 149mm,
ISBN: 9781909932487
ISBN 10: 1909932485
Pages: 592
Publication Date: 01 January 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

British-born artist Thomas Evans is the author of Furniture without Rest: Introduction to a Pedestrian Thought Theatre. He was previously the editor of poetry magazine Tolling Elves.

Reviews for The Outwardness of Art: Selected Writings of Adrian Stokes

Evans's inclusion of Stokes's ballet writings, as well as a fascinating essay on Mickey Mouse, reveal the writer's prescient genre-bending approach. Likewise, Stokes's demand that art expose itself to the viewer and that the viewer, in turn, interrogate their own interest is a timeless testament to the subjectivity of art writing.--Jonah Goldman Kay Brooklyn Magazine