‘Art Today’: Stokes, Pound, Freud and the word-image opposition

The subtle, difficult and neglected English twentieth-century art critic Adrian Stokes developed a complex and original if somewhat eccentric ‘semiotic’ theory of the relationship between words and images by synthesizing two antithetical authorities: Ezra Pound and Sigmund Freud.

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