The Collective Dream in Art : : A Psycho-Historical Theory of Culture Based on Relations between the Arts, Psychology, and the Social Sciences /

The Collective Dream in Art : : A Psycho-Historical Theory of Culture Based on Relations between the Arts, Psychology, and the Social Sciences / / Walter Abell.

The Collective Dream in Art is a pioneer work in the synthesis of art interpretation. Believing that no existing interpretive approach to art is in itself the whole answer to understanding a work of art, Professor Abell has attempted to correlate the various critical approaches to visual art and the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Art & Architecture eBook Package
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Abell, Walter,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©1957
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Reprint 2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (378 p.) :; 108 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENT
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  • PART I. DEVELOPMENT OF THE PSYCHO-HISTORICAL THEORY
  • Chapter I. INTRODUCTION
  • Chapter II. PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE INTERPRETATION OF CULTURE
  • Chapter III. HISTORICAL AND MATERIALIST INTERPRETATIONS OF CULTURE
  • Chapter IV. THE THEORY OF THE COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS
  • Chapter V. THE TENSION-IMAGERY PROCESS IN PSYCHO-HISTORICAL INTEGRATION
  • Chapter VI. TENSION IMAGERY AND CULTURE IN PSYCHO-HISTORICAL INTEGRATION
  • Chapter VII. MYTH AND NEAR MYTH IN PSYCHO-HISTORICAL INTEGRATION
  • Chapter VIII. TENSIONAL TRANSFORMATION
  • Chapter IX. CORRELATIONAL SUMMARY
  • PART II. A PSYCHO-HISTORICAL STUDY OF MEDIEVAL WESTERN CULTURE AND ITS LOST BACKGROUNDS
  • Chapter Χ. ART AND MYTH IN MEDIEVAL WESTERN EUROPE — WITH SUGGESTED EQUIVALENTS FOR LOST PREDECESSORS
  • Chapter XI. MYTH AND HISTORY IN SOME NEOLITHIC CULTURES
  • Chapter XII. MYTH AND HISTORY IN THE DARK AGES
  • Chapter XIII. MYTH AND HISTORY IN THE MIDDLE AGES
  • Chapter XIV. REALISM , ABSTRACTION, AND PSYCHO-HISTORY
  • Chapter ΧV. THE PSYCHO-HISTORICAL THEORY; RECAPITULATION AND EXPANSION
  • PART III. ASPECTS AND IMPLICATIONS OF THE PSYCHO-HISTORICAL POINT OF VIEW
  • Chapter ΧVI. SOME IMPLICATIONS FOR THE HISTORY OF ART
  • Chapter XVII. TOWARD A UNIFIED FIELD IN CRITICAL STUDIES
  • Chapter XVIII. THE VOCATION OF THE ARTIST
  • Chapter XIX. ART AND SOCIETY: CONTEMPORARY CULTURAL CONFLICTS
  • NOTES
  • INDEX
  • PLATES

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