The Role of Art in the Construction of Personal Identity [electronic resource] : The Role of Art in the Construction of Personal Identity

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Loewen, Gregory V.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Developmental psychology.

Identity (Psychology) in art.

Local Subjects:

Developmental psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (178 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Loewen looks at the ways art can preserve the self as an archived project. Does art reflect personal growth and can one's view on it change over time? Why do people identify with particular works of art and not others? The pertinent question in this book is how art reflects the personal identity of its creator and how responses to works of art can divulge information about the audience as well. Art can also serve to memorialize the changes that the self goes through while living. He also argues that artistic expression provides a forum for our truest selves to become represented.

Contents:

Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Studying Art as a Subjective Subject; Chapter 2: Art as Memorialization; Chapter 3: The Project of Placing Oneself in the World of Art; Chapter 4: Art's Role in Displacing Self-Consciousness; Chapter 5: Personal Identifications with Art; Chapter 6: Concluding Remarks; References Cited; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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ISBN:

0-7734-1848-2

OCLC:

809774447