Art and its Discontents : The Early Life of Adrian Stokes (Hardcover)

Contents: Foreword; Preface; Early years, 1902-26: Early years: Bayswater and Heddon Court, 1902-16; Rugby, 1916-20, Oxford, 1920-23, Travel, journalism and sexual experience, 1923-26; Poetry and prose: 'Four essays on the Tempio Malatestiano', 1926-30: Ekphrasis: 'Pisanello', 1926-30: The synchronic theme; The historical dialectic; The diachronic theme; Art Theory: Ariadne and 'Pisanello', 1925-30: The Victorian and Bloomsbury inheritance; The philosophical divide; Biography: Sunrise and 'Pisanello', 1926-30: Literature, art and visual experience; 'Poetry' and 'prose', politics and music; Auto/biographies; F/Phantasy and myth: 'Matteo', 1922-28: Spatial geography and fantasy; The ciphers of the Tempio; Historical method and f/phantasy; Stone and water: Canto XVII and 'Agostino', 1929: Canto XVII; 'Agostino': the Venetian fantasy; The Tempio fantasy; Phylogenesis; Carving and modelling: the unfinished trilogy, 1929-34: Racial theory: 'Alberti', 'Giorgione' and The Quattro Cento, 1929-32: 'Alberti' and objectivization; 'Giorgione': psychoanalysis, fascism and Aristotle; Durham and Adrian Stokes on race; The Quattro Cento and racial history of art; Psychoanalysis: the case of 'Mr. B', 1932: The female body; The male body: The 'structure' of the case and aesthetic discourse; Carving and modelling: Stones of Rimini and the Hampstead artists, 1933-34: Gaudier and Agostino; '(T)he sculpture of 1930-1950'; Causality and 'many-sidedness'; The meaning of the Tempio; Conclusion; Index.