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The ‘architecture of colour-form’: Adrian Stokes and Venice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2005

Stephen Kite
Affiliation:
School of Architecture Planning and Landscape, The Quadrangle, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK, [email protected]

Extract

Adrian Stokes (1902–72) — aesthete, critic, painter and poet — is linked to John Ruskin and Walter Pater as one of the greatest aesthetic thinkers in this English empirical tradition. This paper explores his insights on the reciprocity of colour and form in relation to architecture.

Type
Theory
Copyright
© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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