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This biography highlights his revolutionary emphasis on the materials-led inspiration of architecture, sculpture, painting, and the avant-garde creations of the Ballets Russes. In also detailing Stokes's role as catalyst of the transformation of St Ives in Cornwall into an internationally-acclaimed centre of modern art.
List of contents
Preface , Childhood and Youth , Early years , Oxford , East and west , Sitwell protégé , Sigismondo Malatesta and Ezra Pound , Psychoanalysis and Fame , Treatment , Stone alive , Carving , Ballets Russes , Colour and form , Euston Road , Outer and Inner Life , Transforming St Ives , Inside out , Love and divorce , Outside in , Psychoanalytic Aesthetics , Smooth and rough , Psychoanalysing Michelangelo , Klein’s portrait , Hampstead again , Chaos contained , Reflections on the nude , More about Ariadne , Renewed fame
About the author
After leaving Dartington Hall School (where Stokes spent time in the 1930s), and after studying philosophy and psychology at Cambridge, and clinical psychology at the Tavistock Clinic in London, Janet Sayers (nee Toulson) moved to Canterbury where she works for the NHS and teaches, as emeritus professor of psychoanalytic psychology, at the University of Kent.
Summary
This biography highlights his revolutionary emphasis on the materials-led inspiration of architecture, sculpture, painting, and the avant-garde creations of the Ballets Russes. In also detailing Stokes's role as catalyst of the transformation of St Ives in Cornwall into an internationally-acclaimed centre of modern art.
