Newton-art.com is a collection of the works of Stephen Newton. Newton-art.com includes examples of Newton's paintings, etchings, drawings; published books and papers, as well as a selected biography chronologically covering some of the artist's academic achievements, exhibitions and publications.
Stephen Newton's theoretical research into the creative process, often employing a psychoanalytic method of investigation, is very much of a piece with his practical work. Empirical investigation of subjective creative experience in Newton's own painting over many years, has been translated into analytic theoretical texts in what the educationalist and art critic Mel Gooding has referred to as Newton's 'psycho-conceptual project'.
Newton's Painting, Psychoanalysis, and Spirituality published by Cambridge University Press in 2001 is currently being translated into Chinese by Lian Duan at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. Duan translated Peter Fuller's Art and Psychoanalysis back in the 1980s.
Stephen Newton's latest book ART & RITUAL: A Painters Journey is published by Ziggurat Books, Paris (illustrations in colour) and has been described by its editor the New York critic and thinker Professor Donald Kuspit as 'truly major' and a 'wonderful book'. Kuspit has described Newton's paintings thus: 'The remarkable intensity of Newton's paint competes with the eerily static objects to unusually uncanny effect. The contradictoriness of Newton's paintings is an astonishing triumph of expressionism - a genuine tour de force of personal vision and self-objectification, in objects that nonetheless speak of the loss of the self'. |