Psychoanalytic aesthetics an introduction to the British school Nicky Glover

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glover, Nicola

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics--Psychological aspects.

Aesthetics.

Psychoanalysis and art.

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxi, 254 pages)

Place of Publication:

London : Published for the Harris Meltzer Trust by Karnac, 2009.

London Published for the Harris Meltzer Trust by Karnac 2009

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

'This is a book to which the attention of students of art theory and criticism, and all those interested in the important application of psychoanalysis to other fields of study, should be drawn. ""Psychoanalytic Aesthetics"" rethinks the classical account of the relation between art and madness, creativity and psychoneurosis, and the distinction between the primary and secondary processes. It covers a great deal of ground and reviews many psychoanalytic writers (predominantly of the British tradition) on aesthetics, as well as many of the aestheticians using a psychoanalytic background. It is

Contents:

Freud's theory of art and creativity

Essentials of Kleinian theory

The development of Kleinian aesthetics

The legacy of Wilfred Bion

Ehrenzweig and the hidden order of art

Art, creativity, and the potential space

Painting as the body : the aesthetics of Fuller and Wollheim

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-246) and index

ISBN:

1855756862

9781855756861

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