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.

About the Author
Brandon Taylor is Professor of History of Art at the University of Southampton, UK

Reviews
'... this is an extremely good collection. It will be of interest to scholars of sculpture, Surrealism, psychoanalytic aesthetics, and the wider field of modern and contemporary art.' The Art Book



Book Information
ISBN 9781138253032
Author Brandon Taylor
Format Paperback
Page Count 253
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 362g