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- 1946-1958 (Creation)
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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.
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GB 0120 GC/126 1946-1958 Collection 1 file Stokes , Adrian Durham , 1902-1972 , painter and writer
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.
These letters were given to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre (now the Wellcome Library Archives and Manuscripts Department) by Betty Joseph of the Melanie Kein Trust in 1991.
Papers of Adrian Durham Stokes, painter and writer, comprising photocopies of letters from Melanie Klein, 1946-1958.
As set out above in Scope and Content.
Open. The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner. Originals are held by the Tate Gallery Archive who should be consulted about permission
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Wellcome Library online catalogue.
Melanie Klein's papers are in the Wellcome Library: PP/KLE. They do not, however, include any correspondence with Stokes.
Originals held among the Adrian Stokes papers in Tate Gallery Archive: TGA 8816. Papers comprise notebooks, correspondence and papers, 1916-72.
Entry compiled from Wellcome Library online catalogue by Barbara Ball.
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
September 2008 Stokes , Adrian Durham , 1902-1972 , painter and writer Psychiatry Psychology Clinical psychology Psychoanalysis Klein , Melanie , 1882-1960 , psychoanalyst
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These letters were given to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre (now the Wellcome Library Archives and Manuscripts Department) by Betty Joseph of the Melanie Kein Trust in 1991.
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Papers of Adrian Durham Stokes, painter and writer, comprising photocopies of letters from Melanie Klein, 1946-1958.
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As set out above in Scope and Content.
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Open. The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
Conditions governing reproduction
Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner. Originals are held by the Tate Gallery Archive who should be consulted about permission
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- English
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- Latin
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English
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Melanie Klein's papers are in the Wellcome Library: PP/KLE. They do not, however, include any correspondence with Stokes.
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Wellcome Library online catalogue.
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Originals held among the Adrian Stokes papers in Tate Gallery Archive: TGA 8816. Papers comprise notebooks, correspondence and papers, 1916-72.
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Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
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- English