Adrian Stokes
1902–1972
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Biography
Adrian 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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Adrian Stokes Nude Lying
1963
Adrian Stokes Still Life
1959
Adrian Stokes Still Life
1963
Adrian Stokes Still Life: Last Eleven (No. 11)
1972
Adrian Stokes Landscape, West Penwith Moor
1937
Adrian Stokes Still Life
c.1959
Adrian Stokes Still Life
1958
Adrian Stokes Still Life: Last Eleven (No. 3)
1972
Features
‘A Summing Up of All I Have Ever Thought’: Adrian Stokes’s ‘In Short’ (1942) and his Other Writings of the Period
The intertextual links between Stokes’s unpublished essay ‘In Short’ (1942) and his other writings of the period justify his ...
Substance and Speech: Adrian Stokes and the Politics of Content and Form
This paper considers the figurative role of surfaces and their contents in the first chapter, ‘Jesi’, of Adrian Stokes’s ...
Building and the Graphic Arts: Adrian Stokes at the ICA
Stephen Kite explores the relationship between architecture and the graphic arts in the milieus of the Institute of Contemporary Arts ...
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