For Want of Ambiguity: Order and Chaos in Art, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience

For Want of Ambiguity: Order and Chaos in Art, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience
ISBN-10
150134885X
ISBN-13
9781501348853
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
200
Language
English
Published
2019-02-21
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Authors
Lois Oppenheim, Ludovica Lumer

Description

Nominated for the 2019 Gradiva® Award for Best Book by the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP) For Want of Ambiguity investigates how the dialogue between psychoanalysis and neuroscience can shed light on the transformational capacity of contemporary art. Through neuroscienfitic and psychoanalytic exploration of the work of Diamante Faraldo, Ai Weiwei, Ida Barbarigo, Xavier Le Roy, Bill T. Jones, Cindy Sherman, Francis Bacon, Agnes Martin, and others, For Want of Ambiguity offers a new perspective on how insight is achieved and on how art opens us up to new ways of being.

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