Research Catalog

Title

The soul of art : analysis and creation / Christian Gaillard ; translation by Anita Conrade ; foreword by David H. Rosen.

Author

Gaillard, Christian, 1942-

Publication

College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2017]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Conrade, Anita
• Rosen, David H., 1945-

Description

viii, 271 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

Art and the mystery of human consciousness ... The beginnings of art are lost in the dim reaches of prehistory, eons before humans began recording and codifying their experiences in writing. And yet philosophers, artists, and historians have for centuries noted the intimate and perhaps inseparable relationship between human consciousness and the artistic impulse. As analyst and professor Christian Gaillard notes, we can see some of the earliest expressions of this intimacy in the cave paintings at Lascaux, and the relationship continues to the present day in the works of modern creators such as Jackson Pollock and Anselm Kiefer. What fascinates Gaillard-and, indeed, what fascinated Carl Jung-is, among other things, the notion that art enables us to explore our inner landscapes in ways that are impossible by any other means. In The Soul of Art: Analysis and Creation, Gaillard takes readers on a tour of his own "gallery of the mind," examining works of art from throughout history-and prehistory-that have moved, challenged and changed him. He also explores instances where particular works of art have proven deeply significant in his or his colleagues' understanding of their analyses and their ability to serve as capable guides on the journey toward self-awareness.

Series Statement

Carolyn and Ernest Fay series in analytical psychology ; number twenty

Uniform Title

• Essays. Selections. English
• Carolyn and Ernest Fay series in analytical psychology ; no. 20.

Alternative Title

Essays.

Subject

• Jung, C. G. 1875-1961 > Knowledge and learning
• Jung, C. G 1875-1961
• Jung, C. G. 1875-1961
• Art > Psychology
• Emotions in art
• Psychoanalysis and art
• Art therapy
• Art
• Psychoanalysis
• Jungian Theory
• Art
• Psychoanalysis
• Art Therapy
• art therapy
• psychoanalysis
• Art > Psychology
• Art therapy
• Emotions in art
• Psychoanalysis and art

Genre/Form

• Essay
• essays.
• Art
• Essays
• Essays.
• Essais.

Note

• Translated from the French.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword / David H. Rosen -- Introduction: Onward and upward? / Christian Gaillard -- From the analyst's consulting room to prehistoric caves -- An encounter in Herculaneum -- Whatever happened to paradise? -- From Durer to Cranach: melancholy in black and red -- Narcissus crouching: from Ovid to Caravaggio -- Who the heck is Bluebeard? The nineteenth century grapples with an ogre -- A contemporary Bluebeard story -- Jackson Pollock on the brink of the well: the challenge of figuration -- Conclusion: Vessels are broken and a book opens -- Notes.

ISBN

• 9781623495251
• 1623495253
• 9781623495268 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2016046611
• 40027162989

OCLC

• ocn960905842
• 960905842
• SCSB-1885830

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library