Overview

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.

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Author:   Mary M. Gedo
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Analytic Press,U.S.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.952kg
ISBN:  

9780881630787

ISBN 10:   0881630780
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   01 July 1988
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

I. Renaissance Topics 1. An Affinity Between the Comic and the Sublime in Pictorial Imagery, Poseq 2. Michelangelo's Eve in the Sistine Temptation, Phillips 3. What Raphael Meant to Vasari, Huntley II. Proto Surrealism and Surrealism 4. The Mystery and Melancholy of the 19th Century Sculpture in de Chirico's Pittura Matafisica, Scott 5. De Chirico: The Girl with the Hoop, Heyd 6. De Chirico: The Greetings of a Distant Friend, Heyd 7. Sisters and Birds: Meaningful Symbols in the Work of Max Ernst, Stokes 8. A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Sister Symbolism in the Art of de Chirico and Ernst, Shengold 9. A Note on Magritte's Use of the Shroud, Abarbanel 10. Surrealism's Re-Visions of Psychoanalysis, Post III. The Position of the Artist in the Modern World 11. The Dangers of Originality: Creativity and the Artistic Process, Csikszentmihalyi 12. Cezanne's Bathers: A Psychoanalyst's View, Esman 13. Henri Matisse's Self-Portraits: Presentation and Representation, Bock 14. Self-Confrontation the Early Works of the Vienna School, Aichele 15. Tumarkin and the Feminine Archetype, Poseq IV. Book Review 16. Giacometti: A Biography by James Lord, Galuszka 17. Giacometti: A Biography by James Lord, Wilson

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Author Information

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.

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