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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “lois oppenheim”
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  • Neuroaesthetics and Psychoanalysis

    Curiosity, Creativity, and Crisis

    by Lois Oppenheim ...
    Series series The Routledge Neuropsychoanalysis Series
    This book looks at the fundamental question of why we take pleasure in art through a relatively new perspective of neuroaesthetics and explores the close links between cognitive and affective processes used in understanding art and science.Drawing on the new and rapidly developing school of neuroaesthetics, the author explores the meaning of mind in the context of both creation and viewing. She ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • A Curious Intimacy

    Art and Neuro-psychoanalysis

    by Lois Oppenheim ...
    What can neuroscience contribute to the psychodynamic understanding of creativity and the imagination?A Curious Intimacy is an innovative study into the interrelation between art and neuro-psychoanalysis which significantly narrows the divide between the humanities and the sciences.Situating our grasp of the creative mind within the historical context of theories of sublimation, Lois Oppenheim ... Read more

    $129.99 CAD

  • Psychoanalysis and the Artistic Endeavor

    Conversations with literary and visual artists

    by Lois Oppenheim ...
    Series series Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series
    Psychoanalysis and the Artistic Endeavor offers an intriguing window onto the creative thinking of several well-known and highly creative individuals. Internationally renowned writers, painters, choreographers, and others converse with the author about their work and how it has been informed by their life experience. Creative process frames the discussions, but the topics explored are wide-ranging ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Imagination from Fantasy to Delusion

    by Lois Oppenheim ...
    Series series Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series
    In Imagination from Fantasy to Delusion, Lois Oppenheim illustrates the enhancement of self that creativity affords, the relationship of imagination to the self as agent. The premise of this book is twofold: First, that the imaginary is real. Where it differs from what we commonly take to be reality is in structure and in form. The imaginary of art, for example, is not illusionary for it is ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Politics In Chile

    Socialism, Authoritarianism, and Market Democracy

    by Lois Hecht Oppenheim ...
    The third edition of Politics in Chile provides significantly updated coverage of Chilean politics and economic development from the return to civilian rule in 1990 to the 2006 election and early administration of Socialist Michelle Bachelet, Chile's first woman president. Lois Hecht Oppenheim focuses on recent efforts to reconstruct democratic practices and institutions, including resolving such ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

  • Samuel Beckett and the Arts

    Music, Visual Arts and Non-Print Media

    Edited by Lois Oppenheim ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Beckett
    This book, first published in 1999, addresses Beckett’s visual and musical sensibilities, and examines his visionary use of such diverse modes of creative expression as stage, radio, television and film, when his medium was the written word. The first section of the book focuses on music; the second part analyses the visual arts; and the third part examines film, radio and television. This book ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

  • For Want of Ambiguity

    Order and Chaos in Art, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience

    by Dr. Ludovica Lumer, Dr. Lois Oppenheim ...
    Series series Psychoanalytic Horizons
    Nominated for the 2019 Gradiva® Award for Best Book by the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP)For Want of Ambiguity investigates how the dialogue between psychoanalysis and neuroscience can shed light on the transformational capacity of contemporary art.Through neuroscienfitic and psychoanalytic exploration of the work of Diamante Faraldo, Ai Weiwei, Ida Barbarigo, ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

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  • The Theatre of the Absurd

    by Martin Esslin ...
    In 1953, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot premiered at a tiny avant-garde theatre in Paris; within five years, it had been translated into more than twenty languages and seen by more than a million spectators. Its startling popularity marked the emergence of a new type of theatre whose proponents—Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, Pinter, and others—shattered dramatic conventions and paid scant attention ... Read more

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  • A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women

    Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind

    by Siri Hustvedt ...
    A compelling, radical, “richly explored” (The New York Times Book Review) and “insightful” (Vanity Fair) collection of essays on art, feminism, neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy from prizewinning novelist Siri Hustvedt, acclaimed author of The Blazing World and What I Loved.In this expansive volume, Hustvedt presents a trilogy of intellectually daring works that reveal the striking breadth ... Read more

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  • The Work of Art

    How Something Comes from Nothing

    by Adam Moss ...
    **The New York Times bestseller and one of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2024"The gift book of the year, a volume that should have broad appeal and deliver many hours of pleasure to the recipient. The Work of Art is a gorgeous book.” —John Warner*, The Chicago Tribune*From former editor of New York magazine Adam Moss, a collection of illuminating conversations examining the very personal, ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Deleuze & Guattari for Architects

    by Andrew Ballantyne ...
    Series series Thinkers for Architects
    The work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari has been inspirational for architects and architectural theorists in recent years. It has influenced the design work of architects as diverse as Greg Lynn and David Chipperfield, and is regularly cited by avant-gardist architects and by students, but usually without being well understood.The first collaboration between Deleuze and Guattari was Anti ... Read more

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