Desperate necessity : Writings on art and psychoanalysis /
[by] Eugene Glynn ; edited with an introduction by Jonathan Weinberg.
- New York : Periscope, 2009.
- 104 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Hardback.
Television and the American character - Norman Mailer, 'Why are we in Vietnam?' - Richard Lindner - Jackson Pollock, 'Psychological drawings' - On erotic art - Lucas Samaras I - On Erik H. Erikson - Paul Gauguin's Paradise Lost - To express...a serious sorrow - a dreaming art - Félix Vallotton I - Félix Vallotton II - Egon Schiele - Lucas Samaras II - Peter Gay, 'Art and act' - Desperate necessity: art and creativity in recent psychoanalytic theory - The critical writings of Adrian Stokes - Legend, myth, and magic in the image of the artist - Michelangelo.
Offers an account of the pitfalls and occasional successes in efforts to marshal psychoanalytic theory in the interpretation of works of art and their makers. Few experts on psychoanalysis know as much art history as did the late Eugene Glynn. Few, if any, can write with the panache and the insight he possessed. Brought together in this anthology, his book reviews provide a penetrating account of the pitfalls and occasional successes in efforts to marshal psychoanalytic theory in the interpretation of works of art and their makers. Developed through years of close study in galleries and museums, Glynn's sensitivity to visual form enables him to transcend professional protocols to frame large questions about the origins of the creative act. Jonathan Weinberg's introduction positions Glynn's writings in the fields of art history and psychoanalysis.
Undergraduate.
9781934772881 (hbk.) : \ 1934772887 (hbk.) : \
Art--Psychological aspects. Psychoanalysis and art. Theory of art. Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory. Art and Design.