Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Art, V. 3

Author: Mary M. GedoPublisher: RoutledgeHardcover:ISBN 10: 0881630780ISBN 13: 978-0881630787This new hardcover annual offers a unique scholarly format, an interdisciplinary dialogue that, it is hoped, will foster the development of a sound, useful methodology for applying psychoanalytic insight to art and artists.  The series provides a medium for those who study art, those who interpret it, and occasionally those who create it, formally to explore the meaning of an artistic work as the direct reflection of the inner world of its creator. Within each volume, individual topics are addressed by either an art historian or a psychoanalyst, with a response frequently tendered by an expert from the other field.  Reviews of important books of cross-disciplinary interest are treated in a similar manner, and include rebuttals by the authors themselves.  It is precisely this exchange of ideas among scholars with difference perspectives on the meaning of a work of art that sets PPA apart from the