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Art and Ritual: A Painter's Journey
Beginning with the sensibility of the painter, Stephen Newton illuminates the psychic essence of ritual procedure as practiced universally since the dawn of man's self consciousness.
By drawing on his own radical experience as an abstract painter, Newton excavates the elemental inner processes that are finally manifest in the wider cultural arena. He locates the common roots of art and religion at the hidden source of timeless ritual and its cathartic transforming power.
ART & RITUAL will be of interest not only to students of art, anthropology, and the history of mysticism and religion, but also to those interested in the potential that art has to regenerate an individuals' very existence. As the esteemed American art critic Donald Cuspit has said,
"This book is truly major."
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The Politics and Psychoanalysis
of Primitivism
In this book, first published by Ziggurat books, London, in 1996, Newton examines the parallel between the modern artist’s excavation and investigation of the creative process in abstraction and the primitivist impulse to surpass cultural convention and constraint. Newton uses a psychoanalytical investigative method to analyse the relationship between modern art and psychotic art and shows how ‘psycho-spiritual’ experience as encountered in the tribal ritual trance is integral to the creative process. The book is distributed by Art Books International, but can be ordered by e-mail. |
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Painting, Psychoanalysis,
and Spirituality
Published by Cambridge University Press, New York, in January 2001, this book examines the spiritual and transcendental dimension of painting. Using psychoanalytical ideas, Newton analyses the inner core of the creative process, showing how painting can psychologically transform the artist of viewer through engagement with the spiritual dimension of the artwork. The analysis ranges through modern and contemporary artists such as Roger Hilton, Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston and George Baselitz, and earlier painters including Fra Angelico, Leonardo, Nicholas Poussin, and Cezanne. By exposing the unconscious creative processes that determine the figurative symbols and narratives formulated to represent them, he advances the theory of artistic creatvitity.
Contemporary Artists and their Critics
2001 253 x 177mm 280pp 68 half-tones 8 colour plates
available in paperback or hardback.
C 0 521 66134 x
Reviews:
‘an extremely worthwhile book' Adrian Lewis, The Art Book
‘ambitious and closely argued' Gavin Parkinson, TLS
‘a carefully argued reassessment of the connection between art and psychoanalytic theory' Karen A.Levine, Tema Celeste
‘stands proudly in a series which goes back to Freud's ‘Leonardo' (1910)' Derek J.Smith, Journal of Consciousness Studies
‘overall the book is erudite and often brilliant in dealing with art and art theory' Gilbert J.Rose, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
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The Spiritual Unconscious: Stephen Newton-Paintings and Drawings
1975-96
This catalogue includes essays by:
Mel Gooding
Mel Gooding is a critic, writer, curator and educationalist. The author of major books and catalogues on John Hoyland, Patrick Heron, Bruce Mclean, Frank Auerbach, Michael Rothenstein, Mary Fedden and Ceri Richards, he also contributes extensively to leading art magazines in the UK.
His essay is entitled: Reveries, Intimations, Ironies: The Recent Paintings of Stephen Newton.
David Maclagan
David Maclagan is a writer and artist. He lectures at the Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies at the University of Sheffield, where he directs the M.A. in Art and Psychotherapy. He is widely published on psychotic art and psychological aesthetics and organised the 1996 conference on Anton Ehrenzweig in Sheffield.
His essay is entitled: The Silence of the Sirens: The Unconscious Aesthetic in Stephen Newton's Paintings.
Keith Patrick
Keith Patrick is a writer, critic and exhibition organiser. Editor of Art Line magazine (1990-96) and now the editor of Contemporary Visual Arts , and curator of two major travelling exhibitions on British art: Francis Bacon to Now: The Outsider in British Figuration (1991/2); and Henry Moore to the '90s: Contemporary British Sculpture (1995). He is also European Vice President of the International Art Critics Association (A.I.C.A.).
His essay is entitled: The Art and Ideas of Stephen Newton.
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Stephen Newton:
Paintings and Drawings
1997-2000
This catalogue includes essays by:
Donald Kuspit
Donald Kuspit, New York art critic, is Professor of Art History and Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and A.D.White Professor at Large at Cornell University. He is the author of several books and hundreds of articles on aspects of modern and contemporary art, including The Cult of the Avant-Garde Artist, Signs of Psyche in Modern and Postmodern Art, Idiosyncratic Identities, and Psychostrategies of Avante-Garde Art.
His essay is entitled: The Post-Modern Icon; Stephen Newton's Post-Abstract Paintings.
Mike Von Joel
Mike Von Joel is the managing editor of Art Line magazine and director of Painting and Sculpture International. He is the curator of numerous exhibitions and author of many articles and interviews.
His essay is entitled: The Drawings of Stephen Newton.
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Stephen Newton:
Etchings 1998-2000
This catalogue includes essays by:
Mike Von Joel
Mike Von Joel is managing editor of Art Line magazine and director of Painting and Sculpture International. His essay is entitled: Etched Works of Stephen Newton.
Mick Wootton
Mick Wooton is head of the Printmaking Department of Fine Art in the School of Art, University of Northumbria.
Gerda Roper
Professor Gerda Roper is a practising painter and Head of the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle.
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The Kingston and Winchester Papers.
Co-edited by Stephen J. Newton and Brandon Taylor.
Contributors to this book:
Nancy Azara, Sir Antony Caro, Jonathan Cate, Paul Crowther, Rene Gimpel, Mel Gooding, Donald Kuspit, Richard Lofthouse, David Maclagan, Anna Moszynska, Stephen J. Newton, Michael Pennie, Nicholas Pope, Helen Shiner, Bruce Russell, Walter Smith, Brandon Taylor, The Rev. Keith Walker.
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