This title was first published in 2002. Adrian Stokes was a British painter and writer whose books on art have been allowed to go out of print despite their imp

Adrian Stokes (1902-1972) was a British painter and author whose writings on art have been allowed to go out of print despite their impact on Modernism and ongo

Introduction / Stephen Bann -- Stokes and the architectural basis of the sculptural / Alex Potts -- "A deep and necessary commerce": Venice and the "architectur

"Adrian Stokes (1902-1972) was at once the last of the great British amateur art writers in the tradition of Ruskin and Pater, and - as the first art theorist t