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.
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Taylor, Brandon
Brandon Taylor nasceu em 1989, em Prattville, cidade do Alabama, no sul dos Estados Unidos. Graduou-se pela Universidade de Wisconsin-Madison e pelo Iowa Writers’ Workshop, onde foi bolsista do programa de escrita criativa. Mundo real, seu romance de estreia, foi selecionado como um dos melhores livros do ano pelo The New York Times e finalista do Booker Prize de 2020. |