Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Art, V.2

Erscheinungsjahr 1987
ISBN: 978-0-88163-058-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 342 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 944 g

This new hardcover annual offers a unique scholarly format, an interdisciplinary dialogue that, it is hoped, will foster the development of a sound, useful methodology for applying psychoanalytic insight to art and artists. The series provides a medium for those who study art, those who interpret it, and occasionally those who create it, formally to explore the meaning of an artistic work as the direct reflection of the inner world of its creator.
Within each volume, individual topics are addressed by either an art historian or a psychoanalyst, with a response frequently tendered by an expert from the other field. Reviews of important books of cross-disciplinary interest are treated in a similar manner, and include rebuttals by the authors themselves. It is precisely this exchange of ideas among scholars with difference perspectives on the meaning of a work of art that sets PPA apart from the standard art history publication. Its depth of scholarship, coupled with its innovative format, make it a fascinating addition to the burgeoning field of psychoanalytic studies of art history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gedo, Mary M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I. Paintings in Nineteenth-Century France 1. Delacroix: A Study of the Artist's Personality and Its Relation to Art, Spector 2. The Psychodynamics of Modernism: A Postmodernist View, O'Connor 3. Manet's Empathy, Isaacson 4. Monet, Madness and Melancholy, Levine 5. Two Self-Portraits by Berthe Morisot, Genne 6. The Pathology and Health of Art: Gauguin's Self-Experience, Kuspit 7. Paul Cezanne: Symbiosis, Masochism, and the Struggle for Perception, Gedo 8. John Gedo and the Struggle for Perception, Reff 9. Interdisciplinary Dialogue as a Lutte d'amour, Gedo 10. The Author, The Authority, The Authoritarian, Reff II. Nineteenth-Century Painting Outside France 11. Thomas Eakins and S. Weir Mitchell: Images and Cures in the Late Nineteenth Century, Lifton 12. Edvard Munch: The Creative Search for Self, Warick, Warick 13. True Grit: A Note on the Frontal Self-Portrait by Queen Victoria, O'Connor III. Book Review and Response 14. Review of Reinhold Heller, Munch: His Life and Work, Sloan 15. The Biographer and the Figure Behind the Canvas: Reinhold Heller and Edvard Munch, Moraitis 16. Response to the Reviews by Thomas L. Sloan and George Moraitis, Heller

Über Autor(innen)

A former clinical psychologist, Mary Matthews Gedo received her Ph.D. in art history from Northwestern Univeristy in 1972. She is the author of Picasso - Art as Autobiography, and of numerous essays on the art and artists of Chicago.