Ludovica Lumer, Lois Oppenheim

For Want of Ambiguity (eBook, ePUB)

Order and Chaos in Art, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501348846
• Artikelnr.: 56244717

Autorenporträt

Ludovica Lumer is a psychoanalyst with a private practice in New York City, USA. She earned her PhD from University College London, UK, where she worked in the Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology conducting research in the field of neuroaesthetics on the relationship between visual perception and artistic representation. She is the co-author (with Marta Dell'Angelo) of C'è da perderci la testa: scoprire il cervello giocando con l'arte (2010), and (with Semir Zeki) La bella e la Bestia (2011).