
Sculpture and Psychoanalysis
Brandon Taylor(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 26. August 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
253 pages
978-1-138-25303-2 (ISBN)
Description
Just what do psychoanalysis and modern sculpture have to do with one another? The present collection of essays, unique in its field, shows how key metaphors of Freudian and Kleinian psychoanalysis - splitting, projection, sublimation, identification, the schizoid and reparative mechanisms - as well as Lacan's concepts of the stade du mirroir and the objet petit a, can be fruitfully applied to a range of modern three-dimensional art, from Surrealism to the present day. As these essays show, figures such as Barbara Hepworth, Eva Hesse, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Robert Morris, Donald Judd, Gilbert and George, Rebecca Horn and others have often approached the material of sculpture with something like these mechanisms in mind. The need to unlock the levels of psychoanalytic connection between artist, object and viewer in recent debate has fuelled the diverse proposals of this original and important book.
Reviews / Votes
'... this is an extremely good collection. It will be of interest to scholars of sculpture, Surrealism, psychoanalytic aesthetics, and the wider field of modern and contemporary art.' The Art BookMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
392 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-25303-2 (9781138253032)
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Brandon Taylor
Sculpture and Psychoanalysis
Book
03/2006
1st Edition
Routledge
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Person
Brandon Taylor is Professor of History of Art at the University of Southampton, UK
Content
Contents: Part I Modern Objects: Sculpture and disenchantment, Martin Golding; 'Psychologie des foules': Surrealism and the impossible object, Simon Baker; Judd's badge, Tim Martin; Part II Meanings of Abstraction: 'Miss Hepworth's stone is a mother', Anne M. Wagner; The dark chaos of subjectivisms: Splitting and the geometry of fear, David Hulks; Part III Installation and Performance: Jean-Jacques Lebel: Anti-sculpture and anti-psychiatry, Alyce Mahon; Pregenitality and The Singing Sculpture: the anal-sadistic universe of Gilbert & George, Grant Pooke; Eva Hesse: a note on milieu, Mignon Nixon; Inside out: Rebecca Horn's extimate monument, Brian Grosskurth; Part IV Matter and Process: The order of material: Plasticities, malaises, survivals, Georges Didi-Huberman; Revulsion / matter's limits, Brandon Taylor; Index.