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Drawing on the work of a range of visual artists including Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Francis Bacon and Louise Bourgeois, Katrina Mitcheson explores how visual art can help us to know ourselves, when the self is complex, decentred and partially unconscious.

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"A novel theory of selfhood centered on embodiment and modeled on Louise Bourgeois' creative process. Seeking a deep form of personal emancipation, Mitcheson explores the transformative potentialities of bodily openness to aesthetic experience. Her account of the interplay between psychocorporeal subjects and artworks by Cindy Sherman and other identity-destabilizing artists is fascinating." -Diana Tietjens Meyers, University of Connecticut

Visual Art and SelfConstruction

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      Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
      Publication Date: 06/02/2023
      ISBN13: 9781399511186, 978-1399511186
      ISBN10: 1399511181
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Drawing on the work of a range of visual artists including Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Francis Bacon and Louise Bourgeois, Katrina Mitcheson explores how visual art can help us to know ourselves, when the self is complex, decentred and partially unconscious.

      Trade Review
      "A novel theory of selfhood centered on embodiment and modeled on Louise Bourgeois' creative process. Seeking a deep form of personal emancipation, Mitcheson explores the transformative potentialities of bodily openness to aesthetic experience. Her account of the interplay between psychocorporeal subjects and artworks by Cindy Sherman and other identity-destabilizing artists is fascinating." -Diana Tietjens Meyers, University of Connecticut

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