Distortion and love : an anthropological reading of the art and life of Stanley Spencer /
In this ground-breaking book, a theory of 'distortion' - of the way in which the processes of human life are subject to interference, diversion and transformation - is developed by way of the art of one of Britain's greatest twentieth-century painters and that art's public recept...
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Farnham, Surrey :
Ashgate,
[2016]
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Preface; Part I An Introduction to Stanley Spencer, Distortion, and Methodology; 1 The Anthropological Project; 2 Introducing Stanley Spencer as Painter and as Public Figure; 3 Introducing Distortion as a Concept; 4 Methodological Considerations, and Doubts; Part II Stanley Spencer's Vision; 5 Painting Love and Redemption: Stanley's Metaphysics; 6 Inspiration and the Creative Process:'Definition through Passion'; 7 First Conversation: 'What Kind of Art is Stanley Spencer's'?; 8 1932 to 1938: 'The Beatitudes of Love'; 9 Distortion and Stanley's Reaction to It
- 10 Second Conversation: 'What Do Stanley Spencer's Distortions Mean?'Part III A Human Document; 11 Distortion in Individual Consciousness and in Social Relations; and Love; 12 Third Conversation: 'The Stanley Spencer Gallery as Labour of Love?'; Bibliography; Index of Names; Index of Art Works; General Index
