Painting, Psychoanalysis, and Spirituality

Painting, Psychoanalysis, and Spirituality examines the spiritual and transcendental dimension of painting. Using psychoanalytical ideas, the author demonstrates the developmental processes that are the inner core of the creative process. Newton shows how painting can psychologically transform the artist or viewer through engagement with the spiritual dimension of the art work through analyses of works of contemporary artists such as Roger Hilton, Willem de Kooning, and Georg Baselitz, along with those of icon painters Fra Angelico, Leonardo, Nicholas Poussin, and Cézanne, among others.

• Appeals to a wide spectrum of readers, including those whose primary fields are art history, psychology, religion, and cultural studies
• Radically advances the theory of artistic creativity through an explanation of the psychologically transformative power of painting
• Includes 68 halftones and eight color plates, many of which have not been published previously