This book analyzes contemporary visual art produced in the context of conflict and trauma from a range of countries, including Colombia, Northern Ireland, South Africa, and Australia. It focuses on what makes visual language unique, arguing that the "affective" quality of art contributes to a new understanding of the experience of trauma and loss. ......
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.
This is the first in a series of books in which one of the most influential of contemporary art theorists revised from within the conceptions underlying the history of art. The author's basic idea is that the rigor of linear perspective cannot encompass all of visual experience and that it could be said to generate an oppositional factor with ......
This is the definitive analysis of art as a social and perceptual system by Germany s leading social theorist of the late twentieth century. It not only represents an important intellectual step in discussions of art in its rigor and in its having refreshingly set itself the task of creating a set of distinctions for determining what counts as art ......
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 ......
