Psychoanalytic Explorations in Art
by: Kris, Ernst

Hardcover. London, George Allen & Unwin, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Bound in blue cloth with dust jacket with red titles and illustration. 358 pages, 18 unnumbered leaves of b&w plates in rear. Ernest Kris began his celebrated multi-disciplinary career in the 1920s in Austria where he received a doctorate from the University of Vienna in art history. He then began work with Sigmund Freud as an editor of Imago Magazine while training as a psychoanalyst, later emigrated to England and then to the U.S. to escape the Nazis. In this book, Kris deals with the contributions of psychoanalysis to the study of art and to the psychology of the artist and his audience. There is also a large section on the art of the insane and chapters on the nature of comedy, the meaning of poetry and the problems of literary criticism. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.