Download or read book Leonardo Psychoanalysis Art History written by Bradley I. Collins and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether psychoanalysis can, in fact, add to our understanding of art has long been a source of contention among art historians and psychoanalysts. 'Leonardo, Psychoanalysis, and Art History' is the latest round of a lively intellectual debate that has taken place between the two disciplines over the decades.
Download or read book Leonardo Da Vinci written by Sigmund Freud and published by . This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Leonardo da Vinci" by Sigmund Freud is a psychological study of the renowned Renaissance artist and polymath, Leonardo da Vinci. Published in 1910, the book represents Freud's attempt to apply his psychoanalytic theories to understand the personality, motivations, and creative genius of Leonardo. Freud begins by acknowledging the limitations of biographical information available about Leonardo, stating that his analysis will necessarily involve speculation and interpretation. He then proceeds to explore various aspects of Leonardo's life and work through the lens of psychoanalysis. One of Freud's central arguments in the book is that Leonardo's artistic creativity and scientific curiosity were driven by unconscious psychological forces, particularly his complex relationship with his mother. Freud suggests that Leonardo's intense emotional attachment to his mother, combined with feelings of guilt and ambivalence towards his father, influenced his artistic expression and scientific pursuits. Freud also analyzes Leonardo's paintings, drawings, and notebooks, interpreting them as manifestations of his unconscious desires and conflicts. He explores themes of sexuality, repression, and fantasy in Leonardo's work, suggesting that his art served as a means of sublimating and expressing unconscious impulses. Throughout the book, Freud emphasizes the importance of understanding Leonardo's inner world in order to fully appreciate his contributions to art and science. He argues that psychoanalysis provides a valuable framework for interpreting the psychological dimensions of creativity and genius. "Leonardo da Vinci" is regarded as one of Freud's most speculative and controversial works, drawing criticism from art historians and scholars for its psychoanalytic interpretations of Leonardo's life and work. However, the book remains influential in the field of psychoanalysis and continues to provoke discussion about the relationship between psychology and creativity. Overall, Freud's "Leonardo da Vinci" offers a thought-provoking exploration of the psychological complexities of one of history's most iconic figures, shedding light on the inner workings of a brilliant mind through the lens of psychoanalytic theory.
Download or read book Leonardo Da Vinci written by Sigmund Freud and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Psychoanalytic Biography and Art History written by Bradley Isham Collins and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Shaping of Art History Meditations on a Discipline written by and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Freud Leonardo Da Vinci and the Vulture s Tail written by Wayne V. Andersen and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2001 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving skillfully between fifteenth-century Florence and twentieth-century Vienna, noted author and art historian Wayne Andersen revisits the first psychoanalytic biography, Sigmund Freud’s 1910 study of Leonardo da Vinci, and offers an entirely new interpretation of Leonardo’s sexuality.“Wayne Andersen is an infectious writer and an infectious thinker. This book has all the ingredients that make for an excellent read, where one learns as much about Freud as about Leonardo, and about Andersen himself in the bargain.”-James Beck, Professor of Art History, Columbia University
Download or read book Art And Psychoanalysis written by Laurie Schneider Adams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering overview of art and psychoanalysis that shows how each field can enrich and enlarge the other.
Download or read book Art and Psyche written by Ellen Handler Spitz and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this provocative, closely argued book, Ellen Handler Spitz explores three principal psychoanalytic approaches to art. The first considers the relations between an artist's life and work; the second focuses on the work of art itself; and the third encompasses the intricate relations between a work of art and its audience or beholders. To illustrate her theoretical discussion, Spitz draws on a variety of art forms, including painting, sculpture, literature, music, and dance. "No one who is concerned with the psychoanalytic study of art can afford to neglect [this book]; no one who cares about the art of psychoanalysis should ignore it."--Aaron H. Esman, M.D., Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association "This book ... should prove fascinating to all who are concerned with works of art as expressions of the human mind and heart."--Shehira Davezac, Hospital and Community Psychiatry "This book is highly recommended to all who enjoy the multiple applications of analytic thought to extend our senses."--Jay Lefer, Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis Ellen Handler Spitz holds degrees in art history, aesthetics, and education from Barnard College, Harvard University, and Columbia University. She was trained as a special candidate at the Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, Columbia University.
Download or read book Leonardo da Vinci written by Sigmund Freud and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-13 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sigmund Freud was already internationally acclaimed as the principal founder of psychoanalysis when he turned his attention to the life of Leonardo da Vinci. It remained Freud’s favourite composition. Compressing many of his insights into a few pages, the result is a fascinating picture of some of Freud’s fundamental ideas, including human sexuality, dreams, and repression. It is an equally compelling – and controversial – portrait of Leonardo and the creative forces that according to Freud lie behind some of his great works, including the Mona Lisa. With a new foreword by Maria Walsh.
Download or read book Leonardo Da Vinci written by Sigmund Freud and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-28 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable book takes as its subject one of the most outstanding men that ever lived. The ultimate prodigy, Leonardo da Vinci was an artist of great originality and power, a scientist, and a powerful thinker. According to Sigmund Freud, he was also a flawed, repressed homosexual. The first psychosexual history to be published, Leonardo da Vinci was the only biography the great psychoanalyst wrote. When Jung first saw it, he told Freud it was 'wonderful', and it remained Freud's favourite composition. The text includes the first full emergence of the concept of narcissism and develops Freud's theories of homosexuality. While based upon controversial research, the book offers a fascinating insight into two men - the subject and the author. If you've ever wondered just what lies behind the Mona Lisa's enigmatic smile, read Freud on Leonardo. It's genius on genius.When psychoanalytic investigation, which usually contents itself with frail human material, approaches the great personages of humanity, it is not impelled to it by motives which are often attributed to it by laymen. It does not strive "to blacken the radiant and to drag the sublime into the mire"; it finds no satisfaction in diminishing the distance between the perfection of the great and the inadequacy of the ordinary objects. But it cannot help finding that everything is worthy of understanding that can be perceived through those prototypes, and it also believes that none is so big as to be ashamed of being subject to the laws which control the normal and morbid actions with the same strictness.Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was admired even by his contemporaries as one of the greatest men of the Italian Renaissance, still even then he appeared as mysterious to them as he now appears to us. An all-sided genius, "whose form can only be divined but never deeply fathomed," he exerted the most decisive influence on his time as an artist; and it remained to us to recognize his greatness as a naturalist which was united in him with the artist. Although he left masterpieces of the art of painting, while his scientific discoveries remained unpublished and unused, the investigator in him has never quite left the artist, often it has severely injured the artist and in the end it has perhaps suppressed the artist altogether. According to Vasari, Leonardo reproached himself during the last hour of his life for having insulted God and men because he has not done his duty to his art. And even if Vasari's story lacks all probability and belongs to those legends which began to be woven about the mystic master while he was still living, it nevertheless retains indisputable value as a testimonial of the judgment of those people and of those times.
Download or read book Leonardo da Vinci written by Sigmund Freud and published by Primento Digital sprl. This book was released on 2024-02-19 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When psychoanalytic investigation, which usually contents itself with frail human material, approaches the great personages of humanity, it is not impelled to it by motives which are often attributed to it by laymen. It does not strive "to blacken the radiant and to drag the sublime into the mire"; it finds no satisfaction in diminishing the distance between the perfection of the great and the inadequacy of the ordinary objects... Leonardo da Vinci was admired even by his contemporaries as one of the greatest men of the Italian Renaissance, still even then he appeared as mysterious to them as he now appears to us. An all-sided genius, "whose form can only be divined but never deeply fathomed," he exerted the most decisive influence on his time as an artist; and it remained to us to recognize his greatness as a naturalist which was united in him with the artist. Although he left masterpieces of the art of painting, while his scientific discoveries remained unpublished and unused, the investigator in him has never quite left the artist, often it has severely injured the artist and in the end it has perhaps suppressed the artist altogether. According to Vasari, Leonardo reproached himself during the last hour of his life for having insulted God and men because he has not done his duty to his art. And even if Vasari's story lacks all probability and belongs to those legends which began to be woven about the mystic master while he was still living, it nevertheless retains indisputable value as a testimonial of the judgment of those people and of those times. What was it that removed the personality of Leonardo from the understanding of his contemporaries? ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.
Download or read book Psychoanalysis and Art written by Elsa Blum and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leonardo and Freud written by Meyer Schapiro and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leonardo Da Vinci written by Sigmund Freud and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Leonardo Da Vinci: A Psychosexual Study of an Infantile Reminiscence The effect that this had on his paintings was that he disliked to handle the brush, he painted less and what was more often the case, the things he began were mostly left unfinished; he cared less and less for the future fate of his works. It was this mode of working that was held up to him as a reproach from his contem poraries to whom his behavior to his art re mamed a riddle. Many of Leonardo's later admirers have at tempted to wipe off the stain of unsteadiness from his character. They maintained that what is blamed in Leonardo is a general char acteristic of great artists. They said that even the energetic Michelangelo who was absorbed in his work left many incompleted works, which was as little due to his fault as to Leo nardo's in the same case. Besides some pic tures were not as unfinished as he claimed, and what the layman would call a masterpiece may still appear to the creator of the work of art as an unsatisfied embodiment of his intentions; he has a faint notion of a perfection which he de spairs of reproducing in likeness. Least of all should the artist be held responsible for the fate which befalls his works. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Leonardo da Vinci written by Sigmund Freud and published by LA CASE Books. This book was released on 2020-11-05 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leonardo da Vinci (1910) remains among the most fascinating, though speculative, works of Freud's entire output. A detailed reconstruction of Leonardo's emotional life from his earliest years, it represents Freud's first sustained venture into biography from a psychoanalytic perspective, and also his effort to trace one route that homosexual development can take.
Download or read book Leonardo Da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood written by Sigmund Freud and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1964 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leonardo da Vinci (1910) remains among the most fascinating, though speculative, works of Freud's entire output.
Download or read book Biography and Early Art Criticism of Leonardo Da Vinci written by Claire J. Farago and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1999 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains early biographical information and art criticism of Leonardo da Vinci and his work.
