FA 453 Art and the Mind (Fall: 3)
How can art be interpreted psychoanalytically? The focus of this seminar
is on late nineteenth century artists such as, but not limited to, Manet,
Gauguin, Cézanne, and Van Gogh, and on those psychoanalytic ideas
that have been, and have yet to be applied to art. We will read Freud, Ernst
Kris and Donald Winnicott, and presumably, the most recent ideas in psychoanalysis.
Our particular concern is the lack of attention paid, as Meyer Schapiro
and others have noted, to the historic, iconographic and stylistic context
of artistic expression as the means of psychoanalytic interpretation.
Katherine Nahum
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