Lynn M Somers

Transformative Objects and the Aesthetics of Play

Louise Bourgeois's Sculpture, 1947-2000

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Produktbeschreibung

"This book considers the sculptures of Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) in light of psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicott's (1896-1971) radical ideas regarding transitional objects, potential space, and play, offering a model for exploring the complex and psychologically evocative sculptures Bourgeois produced from 1947 to 2000. Bridging themes and concerns of modernism and postmodernism, the book reveals how Bourgeois brought a decades-long study of psychoanalysis to bear upon her sculptural production that was symbolic, metaphorical, but most importantly, useful"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781350378865
• ISBN-10: 1350378860
• Artikelnr.: 69310676

Autorenporträt

Lynn M. Somers

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
0.1 Art and the Aesthetics of Play
0.2 Art and Transitional Objects
1: Femme Maison and the Materiality of Home (1945-1949)
1.1 Affects of Home Space
1.2 Metaphors of Body and Home
1.3 Home and the Material Unconscious
1.4 Environments of Estrangement
1.5 Unbearable Objects
2: Personages: Making, Transition, and Use (1947-1955)
2.1 Paradoxical Objects
2.2 Matter, Making, and Materiality
2.3 Sculpture Embodied
2.4 Sculpture as Theoretical Object
2.5 Objects for Losing One's Balance
3: Unruly Objects (1960-1968)
3.1 Pliable Stuff
3.2 Bound and Unbound
3.3 How to Undo an Object, or the Aesthetics of Undoing
3.4 How to Disturb the Order of Things
3.5 How to Use a Sculptural Object
4: Janus: Mothers, Ambivalence, and Play (1968-1989)
4.1 The Beginning(and End)of Softness
4.2 Paradoxes of Madness and Reason
4.3 War in the Nursery
4.4 Ruthless Love
4.5 Objects of Play and Imagination
4.6 Not Less than Everything
5: Cells: Evocative Object Worlds (1990-2000)
5.1 Containers and Containing Spaces
5.2 Cells as Bodily Spaces
5.3 Hidden Worlds
5.4 Collections, or Places, for Getting Lost
5.5 The Value of Nonsense
Conclusion
Index