Art and Psychoanalysis

"One of the most fascinating art historical works that I have read in years. It is exceptionally wide-ranging and will appeal to students of art as well as scholars not to mention readers in other fields. The book is also filled with fresh, scholarly insight and observations of various aspects of art and psychobiography that will be new to art historians."

• PAUL BAROLSKY, Professor of Art History, University of Virginia

"Informative, clearly written, closely argued, stimulating, and in fact, quite fascinating. It is a pioneering contribution to the fields of art history and of psychoanalysis.... She makes you look at painting or sculpture and read the details in a new way.... Though serious in substance, the book is remarkably easy to read and understand."

• LARISSA BONFANTE, Professor of Classics, New York University

"Why should philosophers be interested in Art and Psychoanalysis? Because of the richness and range of the psychoanalytic readings both of the contents of works of visual art and of the causal accounts of their making and because of what the readings suggest about the nature of interpretation and the human mind."

• MARY WISEMAN, Journal of Aesthetics & Art Criticism