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.
| ISBN: | 9781501367588 |
| Publication date: | 27th August 2020 |
| Author: | Dr Ludovica Psychoanalyst, Independent Scholar, USA Lumer, Dr Lois, PhD Professor and Chair, Dept of Modern La Oppenheim |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Academic USA an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 200 pages |
| Series: | Psychoanalytic Horizons |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: general Literary theory Neurosciences Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology |
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.
For Want of Ambiguity features in the following genres: Literary studies: general, Literary theory, Neurosciences, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology
For Want of Ambiguity is available in Paperback, Hardback
For Want of Ambiguity was written by Dr Ludovica Psychoanalyst, Independent Scholar, USA Lumer, Dr Lois, PhD Professor and Chair, Dept of Modern La Oppenheim and published by Bloomsbury Academic USA an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
For Want of Ambiguity has 200 pages
Yes it is part of Psychoanalytic Horizons series