Art and Psychoanalysis by Laurie Schneider AdamsCall Number: 701.05 AD18A
ISBN: 0064302970
Publication Date: 1993-11-01
Architecture & Art
A history of some of the main controversies in the application of psychoanalysis to art. Contents: Beginnings; Freud’s Leonardo : the controversy; The psychological impact of imagery; Art and the Oedipus Complex; Dreams, delusions, and art; Michelangelo’s Moses and other Michelangelo problems; The transitional object and its implications for creativity and symbolization; Some psychological aspects of the mother-child relationship in Western art; Psychoanalytic readings of primal-scene iconography; Biography, autobiography, and psychobiography; Psychobiography : Caravaggio, Artemisia, Brancusi; Aesthetics on trial : Whistler vs. Ruskin. Includes bibliographical references and an index.