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The image in form : selected writings of Adrian Stokes / edited and with an introduction by Richard Wollheim.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Icon editionsPublication details: New York : Harper & Row, 1972Description: 320 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780064385404
  • 006438540X
  • 9780064300285
  • 0064300285
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Contents:
THE NATURE OF ART, I: 'THE QUATTRO CENTO' -- The Quattro Cento – The Love of Stone – Mass and Mass-Effect – The Emblematic – THE NATURE OF ART, II: CARVING AND PAINTING – Carving and Modelling – Stone and Water – Colour and ‘Otherness’ – Colour as Medium – Identity in Difference – THE NATURE OF ART, III: ART AND PSYCHOANALYSIS – Art and the Sense of Rebirth – The Luxury and Necessity of Painting – The Two Approaches – The Invitation in Art – Art and the Body – From ‘The Image in Form’ – ARTISTS AND WORKS OF ART – Ghiberti and ‘Finish’ – Donatello – Piero Della Francesca – Verrocchio and Piero Della Francesca in the National Gallery – The Reliefs in the Tempio Malatestiano, Rimini – Giorgione and the Tempesta – Michelangelo – Turner – Cézanne – Cézanne’s Les Baigneuses, and Two Other Pictures in the National Gallery – Monet – PLACES – Venice – Genoa – Ports – AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL – Childhood – Cornwall and the Sense of Home – Living in Ticino, 1947-50.

Includes bibliographical references.

THE NATURE OF ART, I: 'THE QUATTRO CENTO' -- The Quattro Cento – The Love of Stone – Mass and Mass-Effect – The Emblematic – THE NATURE OF ART, II: CARVING AND PAINTING – Carving and Modelling – Stone and Water – Colour and ‘Otherness’ – Colour as Medium – Identity in Difference – THE NATURE OF ART, III: ART AND PSYCHOANALYSIS – Art and the Sense of Rebirth – The Luxury and Necessity of Painting – The Two Approaches – The Invitation in Art – Art and the Body – From ‘The Image in Form’ – ARTISTS AND WORKS OF ART – Ghiberti and ‘Finish’ – Donatello – Piero Della Francesca – Verrocchio and Piero Della Francesca in the National Gallery – The Reliefs in the Tempio Malatestiano, Rimini – Giorgione and the Tempesta – Michelangelo – Turner – Cézanne – Cézanne’s Les Baigneuses, and Two Other Pictures in the National Gallery – Monet – PLACES – Venice – Genoa – Ports – AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL – Childhood – Cornwall and the Sense of Home – Living in Ticino, 1947-50.