Art and Analysis: An Adrian Stokes Reader
Book Details
- Publisher : Harris Meltzer Trust
- Published : 2014
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 208
- Category :
Psychoanalysis - Category 2 :
Culture and Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 35117
- ISBN 13 : 9781782201182
- ISBN 10 : 1782201181
Table of Contents
Introduction
Meg Harris Williams
1. The quest for sanity
The arts of life
The power to communicate
Relating to the object (with Donald Meltzer)
Inner truth and outer space
The image of sanity
Form and wholeness
Contemplative states
2. Art and the inner world
Painting and the inner world
Absorption and attention
All art is of the body
Weighty articulation and hazy presences
The art of appreciation
The artist and the art appreciator (with Donald Meltzer)
3. Modes of art and modes of being
Carving and modelling
Michelangelo’s sonnet
Pregnant shapes
Identity in difference
The evening light
Oneness and otherness
Classic synthesis
The line of equivalence
The invitation in art
4. Mother art
Integrity of the outward object
Concreted time
Myth, stone, and water
The flux of feelings objectified
Accumulated sea-change
The feel of our structure
5. Close looking
Piero’s perspective: art and science
Giorgione: catastrophic change
Turner: beneficence in space
6. Construction of the good mother
Inside Out: an autobiographical narrative
Envoi
Appendix 1 by Donald Meltzer
Appendix 2 by Eric Rhode
References and bibliography
Index