The Coral Mind

Download or read book The Coral Mind written by Stephen Bann and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction / Stephen Bann -- Stokes and the architectural basis of the sculptural / Alex Potts -- "A deep and necessary commerce": Venice and the "architecture of colour-form" / Stephen Kite -- "The house of the mind": on Piero, perspective, and psychoanalysis / Peter Leech -- "We are exalted": Adrian Stokes's coming to terms with Michelangelo's massiveness / David Hulks -- Stokes's analysis / Richard Read -- Portrait of an analyst: Adrian Stokes and Melanie Klein / Lyndsey Stonebridge -- Healing art, healing Stokes / Janet Sayers -- "Showing openly the inside of action": place, ballet, psychoanalysis / Martin Golding -- The art historian as art critic: in praise of Adrian Stokes / David Carrier -- "Inferential muscle" and the work of criticism: Michael Baxandall on Adrian Stokes and art-critical language / Paul Tucker -- To bring the distant things near: distance in relation to the work of art in Stokes's thought / Etienne Jollet -- Stones of solace / Michael Ann Holly.