Distortion and love : an anthropological reading of the art and life of Stanley Spencer / Nigel Rapport (University of St. Andrews, UK).
2016
N6797.S67 R36 2016
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Title
Distortion and love : an anthropological reading of the art and life of Stanley Spencer / Nigel Rapport (University of St. Andrews, UK).
ISBN
9781472461353 (electronic bk.)
1472461355 (electronic bk.)
1472461363
9781472461360
9781472461346
1472461347
9781472461360
1472461355 (electronic bk.)
1472461363
9781472461360
9781472461346
1472461347
9781472461360
Published
Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate, [2016]
Copyright
©2016
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Call Number
N6797.S67 R36 2016
System Control No.
(OCoLC)929624316
Summary
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 reception. Devoted to his native village of Cookham-on-Thames, Stanley Spencer painted not only landscapes and portraits with loving detail but also the 'memory-feelings' which he felt were a 'sacred' part of his consciousness. Yet Spencer was also a controversial public figure, with some taking the view that his visionary paintings were ugly distortions of human life, even marks of an immoral nature. Examining how Spencer lived his vision, how he painted it and wrote it, and also how his attempts to communicate that vision were received by his contemporaries and have continued to be interpreted since his death, the author posits distortion as key: an intrinsic aspect both of human creation and of human interaction. What we intend to make, to say, to do and have done, often mutates in the process of being expressed or put into effect: we live amid distortion. Love - the affective appreciation of one another - is then a means by which we accommodate distortion and its consequences in our lives. An illustration, through Stanley Spencer's story, of significant aspects of a human condition, this book will appeal across disciplines, including to art historians and students of Spencer's work, as well as to scholars of anthropology with interests in creativity, perception and interpretation.--Publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
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
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
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 20, 2015).
Available in Other Form
Print version: Rapport, Nigel, 1956- Distortion and love : an anthropological reading of the art and life of Stanley Spencer. Farnham, England ; Burlington, Vermont : Ashgate, ©2016 xi, 327 pages
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