Inside the Freud Museums : history, memory and site-responsive art / Joanne Morra.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morra, Joanne, author.

Contributor:

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Series:

International library of modern and contemporary art ; 6.

International library of modern and contemporary art ; 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939--Museums.

Freud, Sigmund.

Freud Museum (London, England).

Sigmund Freud Museum (Vienna, Austria).

Artists and museums.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 308 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color).

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.

Place of Publication:

London, England : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2017.

Summary:

"Sigmund Freud spent the final year of his life at 20 Maresfield Gardens, London, surrounded by all his possessions, in exile from the Nazis. The long-term home and workspace he left behind in Berggasse 19, Vienna is a seemingly empty space, devoid of the great psychoanalyst's objects and artefacts. Now museums, both of these spaces resonate powerfully. Since 1989, the Freud Museum London has held over 70 exhibitions by a distinctive range of artists including Louise Bourgeois, Sophie Calle, Mat Collishaw, Susan Hiller, Sarah Lucas and Tim Noble and Sue Webster. The Sigmund Freud Museum Vienna houses a small but impressive contemporary art collection, with work by John Baldessari, Joseph Kosuth, Jenny Holzer, Franz West and Ilya Kabakov. In this remarkable book, Joanne Morra offers a nuanced analysis of these historical museums and their unique relationships to contemporary art. Taking us on a journey through the 'site-responsive' artworks, exhibitions and curatorial practices that intervene in the objects, spaces and memories of these museums, Joanne Morra offers a fresh experience of the history and practice of psychoanalysis, of museums and contemporary art."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Staging Psychoanalysis: A Hagiographic Museum in London

Chapter 2. An Archaeological Impulse: Uncovering A 'Museum Within A Museum'

Chapter 3. On Dreaming and Travelling through the Unconscious

Chapter 4. Approaching Trauma: Working Towards A Politics and Ethics of Art Making

Chapter 5. Autobiographical Fictions: Intimate Encounters in the Consulting Room

Chapter 6. Seemingly Empty: A Conceptual Museum in Vienna.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781786723055

1786723050

9781786733054

1786733056

9781350986831

1350986836

OCLC:

1162705437