The Collective Dream in Art : A Psycho-Historical Theory of Culture Based on Relations between the Arts, Psychology, and the Social Sciences / Walter Abell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abell, Walter, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Psychologie.

Art - Psychologie.

Civilisation--Histoire.

Civilisation - Histoire.

Civilisation--Philosophie.

Civilisation - Philosophie.

Civilization.

Cultuur.

Geschichte.

Kunst.

Art--Psychology.

Civilization--Philosophy.

Local Subjects:

Art--Psychology.

Civilization--Philosophy.

Civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (393 p.): 39 Taf.

Edition:

Reprint 2013

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Collective Dream in Art is a pioneer work in the synthesis of art interpretation. Believing that no existing interpretive approach to art is in itself the whole answer to understanding a work of art, Professor Abell has attempted to correlate the various critical approaches to visual art and the methods and points of view used by specialists in the fields of the social sciences, humanities, and psychology and psychoanalysis. The result is a single integrated theory and method which is applicable and valid for all artistic creation.In Part I, Professor Abell examines the pros and cons of various approaches to cultural expression; he concentrates on the psychoanalytical approach of Freud and his followers and of other psychoanalysts and on the ideas of the materialist schools of historiography. From them he welds a new framework of interpretation, which he calls the psycho-historical theory. He tests and applies it in Part II to the culture of the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries in Western Europe, and reaches some new conclusions about the meanings of some common medieval motifs. Part III contains pertinent essays on the implications of the psycho-historical theory for the history of art, the role of the artist, and the relationship of artistic expression to society.

Contents:

Frontmatter

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PART I. DEVELOPMENT OF THE PSYCHO-HISTORICAL THEORY

Chapter I. INTRODUCTION

Chapter II. PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE INTERPRETATION OF CULTURE

Chapter III. HISTORICAL AND MATERIALIST INTERPRETATIONS OF CULTURE

Chapter IV. THE THEORY OF THE COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS

Chapter V. THE TENSION-IMAGERY PROCESS IN PSYCHO-HISTORICAL INTEGRATION

Chapter VI. TENSION IMAGERY AND CULTURE IN PSYCHO-HISTORICAL INTEGRATION

Chapter VII. MYTH AND NEAR MYTH IN PSYCHO-HISTORICAL INTEGRATION

Chapter VIII. TENSIONAL TRANSFORMATION

Chapter IX. CORRELATIONAL SUMMARY

PART II. A PSYCHO-HISTORICAL STUDY OF MEDIEVAL WESTERN CULTURE AND ITS LOST BACKGROUNDS

Chapter Χ. ART AND MYTH IN MEDIEVAL WESTERN EUROPE - WITH SUGGESTED EQUIVALENTS FOR LOST PREDECESSORS

Chapter XI. MYTH AND HISTORY IN SOME NEOLITHIC CULTURES

Chapter XII. MYTH AND HISTORY IN THE DARK AGES

Chapter XIII. MYTH AND HISTORY IN THE MIDDLE AGES

Chapter XIV. REALISM , ABSTRACTION, AND PSYCHO-HISTORY

Chapter ΧV. THE PSYCHO-HISTORICAL THEORY; RECAPITULATION AND EXPANSION

PART III. ASPECTS AND IMPLICATIONS OF THE PSYCHO-HISTORICAL POINT OF VIEW

Chapter ΧVI. SOME IMPLICATIONS FOR THE HISTORY OF ART

Chapter XVII. TOWARD A UNIFIED FIELD IN CRITICAL STUDIES

Chapter XVIII. THE VOCATION OF THE ARTIST

Chapter XIX. ART AND SOCIETY: CONTEMPORARY CULTURAL CONFLICTS

NOTES

INDEX

PLATES

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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ISBN:

0-674-72922-6

OCLC:

1013947308