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Museums of the Mind: Magrittes Labyrinth and Other Essays in the Arts

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Museums of the Mind: Magrittes Labyrinth and Other Essays in the Arts - Spitz, Ellen Handler, Ph.D.
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This book eloquently demonstrates that just as our human relationships change and develop over time, so do our ties to cherished works of art. Such works, with their overlays of perception and projection, exert a lasting influence on the psyche. In the first half of the book, Ellen Handler Spitz guides us through a maze of surreal paintings by Rene Magritte, with psychoanalytic thought as her beacon. In the second half she leads us on a kaleidoscopic journey through other "museums of the mind," where interrelated works in ...

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Museums of the Mind: Magrittes Labyrinth and Other Essays in the Arts 1994, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT

ISBN-13: 9780300060294

Hardcover