Description: Immensely influential and beloved by artists, writers and theorists alike, Stokes was the last of the great British amateur art historians in the tradition of Ruskin and Berenson, and--as the first art theorist to synthesize aesthetics and psychoanalysis--the first of the moderns.e moderns.
Review Quotes: With this selection from Stokes's writings, Evans successfully conveys more or less psychoanalytically informed observations regarding the impact of art and the external world more generally on the internal world of the mind--Janet Sayers "American Imago"