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Product Identifiers
PublisherMIT Press
ISBN-100262201305
ISBN-139780262201308
eBay Product ID (ePID)1687348
Product Key Features
Book TitleHans Bellmer : the Anatomy of Anxiety
Number of Pages332 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2000
TopicIndividual Artists / General, History / General, Subjects & Themes / Human Figure
IllustratorYes
GenreArt
AuthorSue Taylor
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight40.6 Oz
Item Length9.4 in
Item Width7.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN00-042721
Dewey Edition21
Reviews"An impressive book by any standards. Every page displays intelligence, erudition and visual acuity." - Metapsychology
Dewey Decimal709/.2
SynopsisThe German-born Surrealist Hans Bellmer (1902-1975), best known for his lifesize pubescent dolls, devoted an artistic lifetime to creating sexualized images of the female body -distorted, dismembered, or menaced in sinister scenarios. In this book Sue Taylor draws on psychoanalytic theory to suggest why Bellmer was so driven by erotomania as well as a desire for revenge, suffering and the safety of the womb. Although he styled himself as the quintessential Oedipal son, an avant-garde artist in perpetual rebellion against a despised father, Taylor contends that his filial attitude was more complex than he could consciously allow. Tracing a repressed homoerotic attachment to his father, castration anxiety, and an unconscious sense of guilt, Taylor proposes that a feminine identification informs all the disquieting aspects of Bellmer's art.