Image and Insight
Author(s): Ellen Handler Spitz
Secondhand. First edition and signed by the author.
Drawing on psychoanalytic discourse, the author of this work probes the use of words and images in contemporary culture. She draws upon a number of artistic movements and exhibitions to examine the emotional and intellectual responses to art.
A fine copy. Light shelf-wear to the dust jacket. The author's inscription to the half-title.
Product Information
Ellen Handler Spitz is an American writer and academic noted for her expertise on children, psychology, and the arts. She is an internationally acclaimed author and lecturer on children's cultural lives and on children's literature. She is known for her numerous articles in The New Republic examining how the arts and culture interweave and continuously transform daily life from explorations of Maurice Sendak and sexuality to the role of children's books in India. She is an internationally noted authority on psychoanalysis and the arts.
Image and Insight examines the strenuous paradox of looking within and outward at the same time.
General Fields
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- : Columbia Uni Press US
- : Columbia Uni Press US
- : 03 February 1991
- : USA
- : books
Special Fields
- : Ellen Handler Spitz
- : Hardback with Dust Jacket
