A childhood memory by Piero della Francesca / Hubert Damisch ; translated by John Goodman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Damisch, Hubert.

Series:

Cultural memory in the present

Standardized Title:

Souvenir d'enfance par Piero della Francesca. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Piero, della Francesca, 1416?-1492. Madonna del parto.

Piero, della Francesca, 1416?-1492--Criticism and interpretation.

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--Art.

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint.

Piero, della Francesca, 1416?-1492.

Mural painting and decoration, Renaissance--Italy--Monterchi.

Psychoanalysis and art.

Mural painting and decoration, Renaissance.

Criticism and interpretation.

Italy--Monterchi.

Genre:

Art.

Physical Description:

113 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2007.

Summary:

Piero della Francesca's "Madonna del Parto," a celebrated fifteenth-century Tuscan fresco in which the Virgin gestures to her partially open dress and her pregnant womb, is highly unusual in its iconography. Hubert Damisch undertakes an anthropological and historical analysis of an artwork he constructs as a childhood dream of one of humanity's oldest preoccupations, the mysteries of our origins, of our conception and birth. At once parodying and paying homage to Freud's seminal essay on Leonardo da Vinci, Damisch uses Piero's enigmatic painting to narrate our archaic memories. He shows that we must return to Freud because work in psychoanalysis and art has not solved the problem of what is being analyzed: in the triangle of author, work, and audience, where is the psychoanalytic component located?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [93]-113).

ISBN:

9780804734417

0804734410

9780804734424

0804734429

OCLC:

85692778