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Author:   Lynn M. Somers (Drew University, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Dimensions:   Width: 16.40cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.900kg
ISBN:  

9781350378865

ISBN 10:   1350378860
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   23 January 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction 0.1 Art and the Aesthetics of Play 0.2 Art and Transitional Objects 1: Femme Maison and the Materiality of Home (1945–1949) 1.1 Affects of Home Space 1.2 Metaphors of Body and Home 1.3 Home and the Material Unconscious 1.4 Environments of Estrangement 1.5 Unbearable Objects 2: Personages: Making, Transition, and Use (1947–1955) 2.1 Paradoxical Objects 2.2 Matter, Making, and Materiality 2.3 Sculpture Embodied 2.4 Sculpture as Theoretical Object 2.5 Objects for Losing One’s Balance 3: Unruly Objects (1960–1968) 3.1 Pliable Stuff 3.2 Bound and Unbound 3.3 How to Undo an Object, or the Aesthetics of Undoing 3.4 How to Disturb the Order of Things 3.5 How to Use a Sculptural Object 4: Janus: Mothers, Ambivalence, and Play (1968–1989) 4.1 The Beginning(and End)of Softness 4.2 Paradoxes of Madness and Reason 4.3 War in the Nursery 4.4 Ruthless Love 4.5 Objects of Play and Imagination 4.6 Not Less than Everything 5: Cells: Evocative Object Worlds (1990–2000) 5.1 Containers and Containing Spaces 5.2 Cells as Bodily Spaces 5.3 Hidden Worlds 5.4 Collections, or Places, for Getting Lost 5.5 The Value of Nonsense Conclusion Index

Reviews

How can a work of art be at once completely an object and not merely an object? Somers shows, thrillingly, how works by Louise Bourgeois evoke the transitional objects that mediate our earliest encounters with the world. Transformative Objects is at once an incisive study of a major artist, a lucid introduction to object relations theory, and a richly immersive experience in its own right. * Douglas Mao, Russ Family Professor in the Humanities and Film and Media Program Chair, Johns Hopkins University, USA * Louise Bourgeois once said in an interview: ‘I carry my psychoanalysis within the work’. In this intricate and lively study, Lynn Somers stages encounters with Bourgeois’s images and objects that reveal how this psychoanalysis emerges from and embraces that work. * Naomi Segal, Professor Emerita, Institute of Languages, Cultures & Societies, University of London, UK *

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Lynn M. Somers is an Independent Scholar and Adjunct Assistant Professor of art history at Drew University, USA.

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