Published to coincide with the opening of this year’s Barbara Hepworth exhibition at the Tate, Kent professor Janet Sayers’s latest book (with a photo of a Hepworth sculpture on its cover) tells the story of Hepworth’s close friend and champion, the psychoanalytically-minded art critic, Adrian Stokes. As well as recounting Stokes’s revolutionary emphasis on the materials-led inspiration of architecture, sculpture, painting, and the avant-garde creations of the Ballets Russes, Sayers tells the story of how Stokes brought Hepworth to St Ives thereby helping to transform it into an internationally-acclaimed centre of modern art; and of how he used this and other experiences, including falling in love again in his early forties, and his many years of being psychoanalysed by Melanie Klein, in forging insights about ways the outer world gives form to the inner world of fantasy and imagination.