Counterpractice' highlights a generation of women who used art to define a culture of experimental thought and practice during the period of the French women's movement or Mouvement de Liberation des Femmes (1970-81). It considers women's art in relation to some of the most exci…
"This book explores the phenomenon of creativity and creation from a psychoanalytic point of view, focusing on understanding the psycho-emotional dynamics underlying the artistic creative activities, such as theatre, literature, and painting. Throughout, Delgado considers these …
"This book explores the phenomenon of creativity and creation from a psychoanalytic point of view, focusing on understanding the psycho-emotional dynamics underlying the artistic creative activities, such as theatre, literature, and painting. Throughout, Delgado considers these …
This pioneering work, the first history of the art of the insane, scrutinizes changes in attitudes toward the art of the mentally ill from a time when it was either ignored or ridiculed, through the era when major figures in the art world discovered the extraordinary power of vi…
This pioneering work, the first history of the art of the insane, scrutinizes changes in attitudes toward the art of the mentally ill from a time when it was either ignored or ridiculed, through the era when major figures in the art world discovered the extraordinary power of vi…
"Assessing the significance of the artistic activity of the mentally ill, Paul Klee recommended that the work of psychotic artists be "taken seriously, more seriously than all the public galleries when it comes to reforming today's art." This pioneering work, the first history o…
Negrete brings together women writers and artists known for their formal experimentation to show that "the aesthetic experiences afforded by their work are underwritten by a tenacious and uniquely feminine ethics of desire.
Introduction: On Freud's couch, dreaming of art -- Part I. The transvaluation of health -- Louise Bourgeois' art of hysteria -- Transmuting pain into joy with Precious liquids -- Lygia Clark on the space-body problem -- Part II. Love beyond pleasure -- (Re)visions of love: Margu…
"In The Aesthetic Clinic, Fernanda Negrete brings together contemporary women writers and artists well known for their formal experimentation--Louise Bourgeois, Sophie Calle, Lygia Clark, Marguerite Duras, Roni Horn, and Clarice Lispector--to argue that the aesthetic experiences…
Negrete brings together women writers and artists known for their formal experimentation to show that "the aesthetic experiences afforded by their work are underwritten by a tenacious and uniquely feminine ethics of desire."-- taken from back cover.
1. Appearance -- 2. Presence -- 3. Absence -- 4. Destruction -- 5. The hidden self -- 6. The emotional landscape -- 7. Emotional communication -- 8. Empathy and interpretation -- 9. Creativity and greed -- 10. Creating a world.
