Patricia Townsend

Creative States of Mind (eBook, ePUB)

Psychoanalysis and the Artist's Process

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on interviews with professional artists, this book takes the reader inside the creative process. The author, an artist and a psychotherapist, uses psychoanalytic theory to shed light on fundamental questions such as the origin of new ideas and the artist's state of mind while working.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 146
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429620942
• Artikelnr.: 55441000

Autorenporträt

Patricia Townsend is an artist, working with video, photography and installation, and a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. Her artworks have been exhibited widely and her writing on psychoanalysis and the artist's process has appeared in a variety of publications. She recently completed a PhD at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Ken Wright
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Pre-sense
Chapter 2: Preparation, Research and Gestation
Chapter 3: Illumination and the Idea
Chapter 4: Working with the Medium
Chapter 5: The Artist's State of Mind
Chapter 6: Play and Playing
Chapter 7: Creativity, Aggression and Destructiveness
Chapter 8: Spaces and Frames
Chapter 9: The Artist's Internal Frame
Chapter 10: Out into the World
Chapter 11: Recurring Themes
Postscript
Appendix: Archiving of Interviews
Bibliography