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Michelangelo:

A Study in the Nature of Art
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Routledge, 1955 - Art - 166 pages
Adrian Stokes was one of the twentieth century's finest and most discriminating writers on art. Of over twenty works of art criticism, Michelangelo was considered by Lawrence Gowing to be the most complete he ever wrote, presenting an understanding of the great artist that no one subsequently could afford to ignore. Stokes brings to bear in this work not only twenty-five years' study and appreciation of Italian Renaissance art and of aesthetics, but also a unique psychological perspective, as he explains in his introduction, which enables him to uncover the depths of the artist's personality. The subtlety of feeling and profound knowledge of sculpture which Sir Herbert Read admired in Stokes's work is also combined with a literary style perfected through his own poetry and criticism. Presenting a unique survey of his subject's literary as well as his artistic legacy, Stokes succeeds, as no other has before or since, in his aim of bringing Michelangelo's greatness into nearer view.
  

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Contents

Synopsis of Michelangelos Life and Known
12
Notes to Part I
46
Notes to Part II
106
Notes to Part III
143
A Note on Iconography
149
The Medici Chapel
157
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PEP Web - Michelangelo. A Study in the Nature of Art: By Adrian ...
Michelangelo. A Study in the Nature of Art: By Adrian Stokes. New York: Philosophical Library, Inc., 1956. 154 pp.. Psychoanal Q., 26:275-277. Print ...
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JSTOR: Greek Culture and the Ego
Michelangelo: A Study in the Nature of Art. London, 1955, Tavistock Pub- lications, pp. 153, 24 ills., 25s. Mr. Stokes, whose article on "Form" recently ...
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ADRIAN STOKES 1902 - 1972: Collected and Individual Books
MICHELANGELO. A Study in the Nature of Art. London, Tavistock Publications 1955; New York, Philosphical Library, 1956. [C/3]. RAPHAEL, 1483 - 1520. ...
www.pstokes.demon.co.uk/ ads5/ bibliog.htm

The Creation of Adam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1990 Oct 10; 264(14):1837-41. Stokes, Adrian (1955). Michelangelo: A Study in the Nature of Art; Letters in comment: JAMA. 1991 Mar 6; 265(9):1111. ...
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Adrian Stokes and the Benignity of Form: Part Two
224. THECAMBRIDGEQUARTERLV. Adrian Stokes and the. Benignity of Form:. Part Two. In art the formal elements always bring of themselves a beneficent ...
camqtly.oxfordjournals.org/ cgi/ reprint/ XI/ 1/ 224.pdf

About the author (1955)

Adrian Stokes (1902 - 1972). British art critic, painter and poet. Significantly influenced by the psychoanalyst Melanie Klein.

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