Image and Insight
Essays in Psychoanalysis and the Arts
Ellen Handler Spitz(Author)
Columbia University Press
Will be published approx. on 21. October 1993
Book
Paperback/Softback
273 pages
978-0-231-07297-7 (ISBN)
Description
Drawing on psychoanalytic discourse, the author of this work probes the use of words and images in contemporary culture. She draws upon a number of artistic movements and exhibitions to examine the emotional and intellectual responses to art.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Weight
482 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-231-07297-7 (9780231072977)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Looking and longing; an insubstantial pageant faded; charged objects; artistic image and inward gaze; art without history; a cycle of songs; the inescapability of tragedy; mothers and daughters; meditations on the smile of Dionysus; film as dream; new lamps for old?; conflict and creativity.