{"product_id":"visual-art-and-selfconstruction-9781399511186","title":"Visual Art and SelfConstruction","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407771672919,"sku":"9781399511186","price":19.94,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781399511186.jpg?v=1730500485","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/visual-art-and-selfconstruction-9781399511186","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}