Signs of Psyche in Modern and Postmodern Art
Part of Contemporary Artists and their Critics
- Author: Donald Kuspit
- Date Published: March 1994
- availability: Unavailable - out of print October 1998
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521446112
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Signs of Psyche in Modern and Post-Modern Art examines the psychological dimension of visual culture in the twentieth century. Analysing the ways in which psychoanalysis can be used to understand art and culture, Donald Kuspit argues that modern art affirms subjectivity, whereas postmodern art, which is characterised as cynical and glamorous, denies it while, paradoxically, being unable to escape it. Assessing the depth-psychological implications of works by, among others, Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, André Breton, Anselm Kiefer, and Gerhard Richter, this study persuasively demonstrates how the methods of psychoanalysis can be used to probe art works created at critical junctures of this century.
Read more- Author is a star in contemporary art studies
- Psychoanalytic theory is currently a very 'hot'topic/approach in visual arts
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- Date Published: March 1994
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521446112
- length: 399 pages
- dimensions: 254 x 178 x 23 mm
- weight: 0.971kg
- contains: 33 b/w illus.
- availability: Unavailable - out of print October 1998
Table of Contents
Part I. Traditional Modern Art:
1. The Pathology and Health of Art: Gauguin's Self-Experience
2. The Process of Idealization of Woman in Matisse's Art
3. Cubist Hypochondria: On the Case of Picasso and Braque
4. Surrealism's Re-Vision of Psychoanalysis
5. Dispensable Friends, Indispensable Ideologies: André Breton's Surrealism
6. Choosing Psychosis: Max Ernst's Artificial Hallucinations
7. Back to the Future
8. A Freudian Note on Abstract Art
9. The Will to Unintelligibility in Modern Art: Abstraction Reconsidered
10. An Alternative Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Jackson Pollock's Psychoanalytic Drawings
11. Art and the Moral Imperative: Analyzing Activist Art
12. The Modern Fetish
13. The Only Immortal
14. Tart Wit, Wise Humor
Part II. Contemporary European Art:
15. Joseph Beuys: The Body of the Artist
16. The Hospital of the Body: Maria Lassnig's Body Ego Portraits
17. Mourning and Melancholia in German Neo-Expressionism: The Representation of German Subjectivity
18. Anselm Kiefer's Will to Power
19. Gerhard Richter's Doubt and Hope
20. All Our Yesterdays
21. Christian Boltanski's Art of Gloom
22. By Kitsch Possessed: Jiri Georg Dokoupil's Satiric Art
Part III. Theoretical Considerations:
23. Sincere Cynicism
24. The Problem of Art in the Age of Glamour
25. The Good Enough Artist: Beyond the Mainstream Avant-Garde Artist
26. Visual Art and Art Criticism: The Role of Psychoanalysis
27. The Use and Abuse of Applied Psychoanalysis
28. A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Aesthetic Disinterestedness
29. Collecting: A Narcissistic Agony
30. Critical Reflections.
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