Psychostrategies of Avant-Garde Art

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Author: Donald Kuspit, State University of New York, Stony Brook

Date Published: June 2000
availability: Unavailable - out of print May 2011
format: Hardback
isbn: 9780521452779

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Donald Kuspit offers a radical new interpretation of avant-garde art based on a psychological understanding of it. Avant-garde art, Kuspit suggests, is a response to the modern crowd, which undermines and destroys the sense of self. The artist tries to restore his sense of self through one or more of several techniques: identifying with his medium; demonstrating the crowd's perversity and insanity; making hallucinatory art that shows his own insanity; or transcending the crowd altogether by escaping into a world of abstraction. An extensive reinterpretation of Manet keynotes the book.
- Offers a unique psychoanalytic interpretation of avant-garde art in all of its many forms, disclosing an underlying psychodynamic pattern to it
- Provides a major reinterpretation of Manet, the avant-garde father figure
- Demonstrates that avant-garde art provided a sense of authentic selfhood amidst the instability of the modern world
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"Kuspit's new book...brings an unparalleled intellectual courage and interdisciplinary erudition to the examination of the psychomoral core of the initial flowering of the historical avant-garde....[it] must be seen as a treasure-trove of informed insight..." New Art Examiner

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Product details
- Date Published: June 2000
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521452779
- length: 304 pages
- dimensions: 237 x 162 x 26 mm
- weight: 0.705kg
- contains: 35 b/w illus.
- availability: Unavailable - out of print May 2011
Table of Contents
1. Reasons for anxiety and ambivalence: tradition, sexuality, the crowd
2. The anal universe of the crowd
3. Identification with the medium
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Hallucinatory insanity: the way to another reality
5. The geometry of heaven, the energy of angels: to soar at last beyond.
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Donald Kuspit, State University of New York, Stony Brook