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A. THE IMAGE IN FORM: Selected Writings of Adrian Stokes. Edited and  introduced by Richard Wollheim. Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1972; New York, Harper & Row, 1972.

B. A GAME THAT MUST BE LOST: Collected Papers by Adrian Stokes. (Edited with an introduction by Eric Rhode.) Cheadle Hulme, Carcanet Press, 1973.
Contents: "Listening to Cliches and Individual Words"; "Strong Smells and Polite Society"; "Psycho-Analytic Reflections on the Development of Ball Games, particularly Cricket"; "A Game that must be Lost"; "On Resignation"; "On Being Taken out of Oneself', "Face and Anti-Face: A Fable"; "Form in Art: A Psycho-Analytic Interpretation": "Primary Process, Thinking and Art"; "Psycho-Analysis and Our Culture"; "The Future and Art".

C. THE CRITICAL WRITINGS OF ADRIAN STOKES. Edited by Lawrence Gowing. 3 volumes. London, Thames and Hudson, 1978.

Vol 1, 1930 - 1937: "Pisanello" [Less than half of "Pisanello: First of Four Essays on the Tempio Malatestiano at Rimini"]; THE QUATTRO CENTO; STONES OF RIMINI; "Art Today"; "Mr Ben Nicholson's Painting"; "Miss Hepworth's Carving"; Mr Henry Moore's Sculpture"; "Matisse and Picasso"; "Mr Ben Nicholson at the Lefevere Galleries".

Vol 2, 1937 - 1958: COLOUR AND FORM; VENICE: AN ASPECT OF ART; INSIDE OUT; ART AND SCIENCE; SMOOTH AND ROUGH; CEZANNE; RAPHAEL; MONET.

Vol 3, 1955 - 1967: MICHELANGELO; GREEK CULTURE AND THE EGO; THREE ESSAYS ON THE PAINTING OF OUR TIME; "Coldstream and the Sitter" "The Impact of Architecture": PAINTING AND THE INNER WORLD; THE INVITATION IN ART; REFLECTIONS ON THE NUDE.

D. WITH ALL THE VIEWS: The Collected Poems of Adrian Stokes. Edited with an introduction by Peter Robinson. Manchester, Carcanet New Press, 1981; Redding Ridge, CT, Black Swan Books, 1981. See Poetry selection page.

Individual Books

[A letter enclosed in square brackets after an item indicates the volume in the Collections section which includes the item]

THE THREAD OF ARIADNE. With an introduction by John Middleton Murry. London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1925.

SUNRISE IN THE WEST: A Modern Interpretation of Past and Preset. London, Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trubner, [1926].

THE QUATTRO CENTO: A Different Conception of the Italian Renaissance. Part One: Florence and Verona. An Essay in Italian Fifteenth-Century Architecture and Sculpture. London, Faber and Faber, 1932; New York, Schocken Books, 1968. [C/1]

STONES OF RIMINI. London, Faber & Faber, 1934; New York, Schocken Books, 1969. [C/1]

TO-NIGHT THE BALLET. London, Faber & Faber, 1934; New York, Dutton, 1935. Second (revised) edition. London, Faber & Faber, 1935, reprinted in: TO-NIGHT THE BALLET and RUSSIAN BALLETS. 1 vol. New York. Da Capo Press, 1982.

RUSSIAN BALLETS. Faber & Faber, 1935; New York, Dutton, 1936. Second (corrected edition), Faber & Faber, 1935, reprinted in: TO-NIGHT THE BALLET and RUSSIAN BALLE'T`S. 1 vol. New York, Da Capo Press, 1982.

COLOUR AND FORM. London, Faber & Faber, 1937; new (heavily revised) edition, 1950. [C/2]

VENICE: AN ASPECT OF ART. London, Faber & Faber, 1945. [C/2]

CEZANNE. With an introduction and notes by Adrian Stokes. London. Faber and Faber, 1947. (The Faber Gallery); New York, Pitman, 1950. (The Pitman Gallery). (C/2]

INSIDE 0UT. An Essay in the Psychology and Aesthetic Appeal of Space. London, Faber, 1947. [C/2]
Reprinted in:
ENGLAND AND ITS AESTHETES: BIOGRAPHY AND TASTE. John Ruskin, Walter Pater, Adrian Stokes - Essays. Commentary [by] David Carrier. Amsterdam, OPA (for G+B Arts International), 1997. (Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture. A series edited by Saul Ostrow).

ART AND SCIENCE. A Study of Alberti, Piero della Francesca and Giorgione. London, Faber and Faber, 1949. [C/2]

SMOOTH AND ROUGH. London, Faber and Faber, 1951. [C/2]

MICHELANGELO. A Study in the Nature of Art. London, Tavistock Publications 1955; New York, Philosphical Library, 1956. [C/3]

RAPHAEL, 1483 - 1520. With an introduction and notes by Adrian Stokes. London, Faber and Faber, 1956. (The Faber Gallery). [C/2]

GREEK CULTURE AND THE EGO. A Psycho-analytic Survey of an Aspect of Greek Civilisation and of Art. London, Tavistock Publications, 1958. [C/3]

MONET, 1840 - 1926. With an introduction and notes by Adrian Stokes. London, Faber and Faber, 1958. (The Faber Gallery): New York, Wittenborn, 1958. [C/2]

THREE ESSAYS ON THE PAINTING OF OUR TIME. London, Tavistock Publications, 1961. [C/3]

PAINTING; AND THE INNER WORLD. Including a dialogue with Donald Meltzer, M.D. London, Tavistock Publications, 1963. [C/3]

THE INVITATION IN ART. Preface by Richard Wollheim. London, Tavistock Publications, 1965; New York, Chilmark Press, 1966. [C/3]

VENICE. Illustrations by John Piper. [Passages on Venice from six of Stokes's books]. (Limited edition). London, Lion and Unicorn Press, (March) 1965; London, Gerald Duckworth, (November) 1965.

REFLECTIONS ON THE NUDE. London, Tavistock Publications, 1967; New York, Barnes & Noble, 1967. [C/3]

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