Publisher's Synopsis
This is a re-issue of a book by one of Britain's art critics and theorists. The essays ask how psychoanalysis can help us understand art - both its creation and our enjoyment of it.;Fuller's subjects range from Freud's reading of Michelangelo's "David" to detective work on reconstructions of the "Venus de Milo" in the light of Melanie Klein's theories; from Marion Milner's work on perspective to "object relations" theory and the work of American abstract painters like Natkin and Rothko.;Peter Fuller's previous books include "Beyond the Crisis in Art", "Images of God" and "Marches Past". He is also the author of "Theoria: Art the Absence of Grace". His television programmes include "Naturally Creative". His articles have appeared in art magazines and he is Editor of "Modern Painters" journal.
