Description:
Psychoanalysis and the Image brings together an influential team of international scholars who demonstrate innovative ways to apply psychoanalytical resources in the study of international modern art and visual representation.
- Examines psychoanalytic concepts, values, debates and controversies that have been hallmarks of visual representation in the modern and contemporary periods
- Covers topics including melancholia, sex, and pathology to the body, and parent-child relations
- Advances theoretical debates in art history while offering substantive analyses of significant bodies of twentieth century art
- Edited by internationally renowned art historian Griselda Pollock.
Review Quotes: "With greater clarity than ever, this book articulates the relevance of psychoanalysis for art historical interpretation. The result is a work that must necessarily figure in method and theory courses from now on." Keith Moxey, Barnard College, Columbia University