Blum, Elsa, Blum, Harold P., & Amati-Mehler, Jacqueline . Psychoanalysis and Art: the Artistic Representation of the Parent/Child Relationship

Adolescence, Fall, 2004

BLUM, Elsa, BLUM, Harold P., & AMATI-MEHLER, Jacqueline (Eds.). Psychoanalysis and Art: The Artistic Representation of the Parent/Child Relationship. Madison, CT: International Universities Press, 2003. 322pp. $49.95 (p).

Most of the papers in this interdisciplinary book are centered on the Renaissance artistic representations of the parent/child relationship, complemented by papers on the art of other times and places. The papers are representative of the complex, multifaceted, bidirectional relationships between psychoanalysis and art. The application of psychoanalytic concepts to visual art enriches our view of the art object and the artist by exploring the influence of the artist's life history on his or her artistic productions, as well as the psychological meaning for the artist of the creative process.