Adrian Stokes
1902–1972

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Adrian Durham Stokes (27 October 1902 – 15 December 1972) was a British art critic with a speciality in early Renaissance sculpture and the aesthetics of stone-carving. He helped to turn the traditional Cornish fishing-port of St. Ives into an internationally acclaimed centre of modern art.
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Read full Wikipedia entryThe intertextual links between Stokes’s unpublished essay ‘In Short’ (1942) and his other writings of the period justify his own …
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Stephen Kite explores the relationship between architecture and the graphic arts in the milieus of the Institute of Contemporary Arts …