Sculpture and Psychoanalysis

Brandon Taylor

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Just what do psychoanalysis and modern sculpture have to do with one another? The present collection of essays, unique in its field, shows how key metaphors of Freudian and Kleinian psychoanalysis - splitting, projection, sublimation, identification, the schizoid and reparative mechanisms - as well as Lacan's concepts of the stade du mirroir and the objet petit a, can be fruitfully applied to a range of modern three-dimensional art, from Surrealism to the present day. As these essays show, figures such as Barbara Hepworth, Eva Hesse, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Robert Morris, Donald Judd, Gilbert and George, Rebecca Horn and others have often approached the material of sculpture with something like these mechanisms in mind. The need to unlock the levels of psychoanalytic connection between artist, object and viewer in recent debate has fuelled the diverse proposals of this original and important book.

Book Details

Publisher: Routledge
Publish Date: Aug 26th, 2016
Pages: 253
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 9.21in - 6.14in - 0.53in - 0.79lb
EAN: 9781138253032
Categories: • Sculpture & Installation• History - General

About the Author

Brandon Taylor is Professor of History of Art at the University of Southampton, UK

Praise for this book

'... this is an extremely good collection. It will be of interest to scholars of sculpture, Surrealism, psychoanalytic aesthetics, and the wider field of modern and contemporary art.' The Art Book