Art, Psychoanalysis, and Adrian Stokes

This biography highlights his revolutionary emphasis on the materials-led inspiration of architecture, sculpture, painting, and the avant-garde creations of the Ballets Russes. In also detailing Stokes's role as catalyst of the transformation of St Ives in Cornwall into an internationally-acclaimed centre of modern art.

Janet Sayers

Preface , Childhood and Youth , Early years , Oxford , East and west , Sitwell protégé , Sigismondo Malatesta and Ezra Pound , Psychoanalysis and Fame , Treatment , Stone alive , Carving , Ballets Russes , Colour and form , Euston Road , Outer and Inner Life , Transforming St Ives , Inside out , Love and divorce , Outside in , Psychoanalytic Aesthetics , Smooth and rough , Psychoanalysing Michelangelo , Klein's portrait , Hampstead again , Chaos contained , Reflections on the nude , More about Ariadne , Renewed fame