Signs of Psyche in Modern and Postmodern Art - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Signs of Psyche in Modern and Postmodern Art write by Donald Burton Kuspit. This book was released on 1993. Signs of Psyche in Modern and Postmodern Art available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the psychological dimension of visual culture in the twentieth century.
Signs of Psyche in Modern and Postmodern Art
Signs of Psyche in Modern and Postmodern Art - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Signs of Psyche in Modern and Postmodern Art write by Donald B. Kuspit. This book was released on 1993. Signs of Psyche in Modern and Postmodern Art available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Dialectical Conversions
Dialectical Conversions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dialectical Conversions write by David Craven. This book was released on 2013-08-15. Dialectical Conversions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Few art critics in Western art history have ever had the broad-ranging impact over several decades of Donald Kuspit, a philosopher and psychoanalyst who from 1970 until the present has been a commanding figure on the international stage. A student of German thinker Theodor Adorno under whom he earned the first of his three doctorates, Kuspit introduced a new type of philosophical art criticism into the art world. He drew on both phenomenology and Critical Theory before he then increasingly adopted psychoanalysis. Since Kuspit himself has always measured his own place in the history of art criticism by how rigorously he engages with competing approaches, this book is a searching survey of Kuspit's role in triggering several historic shifts within art criticism, beginning with his now legendary 1974 article in Artforum, "A Phenomenological Approach to Artistic Intention." Dense and demanding, yet deft and incisive, Kuspit's multi-faceted art criticism has become world famous for reasons that artists, critics, art historians, and philosophers from at least ten different nations explain from various points of view. Divided into three parts and introduced by a lengthy introduction, the book features comments by recognized artists like Rudolf Baranik, Anselm Kiefer, and April Gornik, as well as critical commentaries by many scholars and critics from around the world on the richness of Kuspit's insights into art.
Head Cases
Head Cases - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Head Cases write by Elaine P. Miller. This book was released on 2014-02-25. Head Cases available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. While philosophy and psychoanalysis privilege language and conceptual distinctions and mistrust the image, the philosopher and psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva recognizes the power of art and the imagination to unblock important sources of meaning. She also appreciates the process through which creative acts counteract and transform feelings of violence and depression. Reviewing Kristeva's corpus, Elaine P. Miller considers the intellectual's "aesthetic idea" and "thought specular" in their capacity to reshape depressive thought on both the individual and cultural level. She revisits Kristeva's reading of Walter Benjamin with reference to melancholic art and the imagination's allegorical structure; her analysis of Byzantine iconoclasm in relation to Freud's psychoanalytic theory of negation and Hegel's dialectical negativity; her understanding of Proust as an exemplary practitioner of sublimation; her rereading of Kant and Arendt in terms of art as an intentional lingering with foreignness; and her argument that forgiveness is both a philosophical and psychoanalytic method of transcending a "stuck" existence. Focusing on specific artworks that illustrate Kristeva's ideas, from ancient Greek tragedy to early photography, contemporary installation art, and film, Miller positions creative acts as a form of "spiritual inoculation" against the violence of our society and its discouragement of thought and reflection.
Modernism and Masculinity
Modernism and Masculinity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modernism and Masculinity write by Gerald Izenberg. This book was released on 2000-11. Modernism and Masculinity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Modernism and Masculinity argues that a crisis of masculinity among European writers and artists played a key role in the modernist revolution. Gerald Izenberg revises the notion that the feminine provided a premodern refuge for artists critical of individualism and materialism. Industrialization and the growing power of the market inspired novelist Thomas Mann, playwright Frank Wedelind, and painter Wassily Kandinsky to feel the problematic character of their own masculinity. As a result, these artists each came to identify creativity, transcendence, and freedom with the feminine. But their critique of masculinity created enormous challenges: How could they appropriate a feminine aesthetic while retaining their own masculine idenitites? How did appropiating the feminine affect their personal relationships or their political views? Modernism and Masculinity seeks to answer these questions. In this absorbing combination of biography and formal critique, Izenberg reconsiders the works of Mann, Wedekind, Kandinsky and semonstrates how the cirses of masculinity they endure are found not just within the images and forms of their art, but in the distinct and very personal impulses that inspired it.
