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Desire and Avoidance in Art - Pablo Picasso, Hans Bellmer, Balthus, and Joseph Cornell Psychobiographical Studies with Attachment Theory (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
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Desire and Avoidance in Art - Pablo Picasso, Hans Bellmer, Balthus, and Joseph Cornell Psychobiographical Studies with Attachment Theory (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
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Desire and Avoidance in Art argues that while early developmental
traumas can produce life-long creative endeavors with striking
aesthetic results, they may also, for the male artist, result in
destructive relations with women. Brink introduces the scheme of
personality formation - as found in the work on infant and child
development of John Bowlby, Mary Ainsworth, Mary Main, Patricia
Crittenden, Allen N. Schore, and others - to explore a new venture
in psychobiography. He effectively uses the concept of «anxious
attachment to describe mother-infant/child relations and their
sequelae. Using pertinent developmental data found in each artist's
childhood, Andrew Brink accounts for the anxious-avoidant
attachment style (or, in Crittenden's terminology, the
Anxious/Controlling style) from which these artists suffered. He
aims to explain why partnerships with women are sometimes hazardous
and frequently tragic for male artists by referencing various
feminist writers. Based on their viewpoints, Brink extracts
psychodynamic explanations that are largely based on what the
artists' imagery reveals. Furthermore, he explains how the
attachment theory of attraction-avoidance is shown to supplement
and enrich other ways of understanding chronically tense relations
between the sexes. Brink focuses his attention on artists such as
Picasso, Bellmer, Balthus, and Cornell, who are culturally powerful
and often stimulate discussion about misogynic figures within a
social context.
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