Presents a theory that explains the nature of all kinds of artworks in a unified way - whether paintings, novels, or musical and theatrical performances. This book states that all representational artworks involve a stage in which a concrete artefact represents an artwork, and another, in which that artwork in turn represents its subject matter.
This work charts pathways in psychoanalytic thinking about art and the artist, revising views held in applied psychoanalysis and adding new dimensions to clinical thinking about the artist and the artistic process. Roland investigates identity issues and inner struggles involved in the developing artistic career. In the second section he focuses on the use of imagery by artists in the creative formation of poetic metaphors and paradoxes, and the metaphorical portrayal of the artist's inner world. In a challenge to a pervasive assumption in psychoanalysis Roland argues that aesthetic form develops primarily to convey the artwork's autonomous meanings rather than to give disguised expression to the artist's inner world. In a third section Roland explores these themes in the context of the dramatic work of Pirandello and Pinter.
Painter and art educator Eric Atkinson taught on the Basic Course at Leeds College of Art in the 1950s and 60s. David Lewis was one of his students. This volume contains a spirited exchange of letters between them, and an insight into the creative processes at the heart of art education.
An exploration of the relationships between modernist artists and writers, and their responses to the immediate challenges of their time, to the implications of Freudian psychology, to molecular theory, to relativist theory, and to the general weakening of religious faith.
A primary resource of key statements on photographic meaning, representation and visual culture. The editors combine classic and contemporary essays from a range of scholars including Barthes, Sontag, Baudrillard and Mulvey. The reader is divided into three parts, which present the culture of the image and the making of meaning; the history and ......
The past decade has seen American culture divided by debates over social identity, public morality, communal values and freedom of expression. A key focus of these discussions has been the role of visual arts in public life. Here five critics and two artists show the ways that this debate has reshaped our view of American culture.
A primary resource of key statements on photographic meaning, representation and visual culture. The editors combine classic and contemporary essays from a range of scholars including Barthes, Sontag, Baudrillard and Mulvey. The reader is divided into three parts, which present the culture of the image and the making of meaning; the history and ......
Art, always a daughter of the Divine, has become estranged from her parent...We should not mock scientific materialism and naturalistic art. These have their place in human culture. But the starting point for a new life of art can come only through direct stimulation from the spiritual realm. We must become artists, not by developing symbolism or ......
