Stokes, Adrian
- Stokes, Adrian Durham, 1902-1972
- Date:
- 1946-1958
- Reference:
- GC/126
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
Description
Photocopies of letters from Melanie Klein, 1946-1958
Publication/Creation
1946-1958
Physical description
1 file Paper
Contributors
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically
Acquisition note
These letters were given to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre (now the library at Wellcome Collection) by Betty Joseph of the Melanie Kein Trust in 1991
Biographical note
Adrian Durham Stokes (1902-1972), painter and writer, was analysed by Melanie Klein for seven years during the 1930s and again for a brief period 1946-1947. He applied her psychoanalytic ideas to aesthetic theory in a number of influential works published during the 1950s and 1960s. A more detailed account of his career may be found in the Dictionary of National Biography, 1971-1980.
Related material
At Wellcome Collection:
Melanie Klein's papers (ref. PP/KLE). They do not include any correspondence with Stokes.
Copyright note
Originals are held by the Tate Gallery Archive who should be consulted about permission
Where to find it
Location of original
Originals held among the Adrian Stokes papers in Tate Gallery Archive: TGA 8816. Papers comprise notebooks, correspondence and papers, 1916-72.
Location Status Access Closed stores
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Identifiers
Accession number
- 379