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For Want of Ambiguity

Order and Chaos in Art, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience
By:Ludovica Lumer; Lois Oppenheim
Publisher:Bloomsbury USA
Print ISBN:9781501367588
eText ISBN:9781501348846
Edition:1
Format:Reflowable

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Nominated for the 2019 Gradiva® Award for Best Book by the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP)

For Want of Ambiguity investigates how the dialogue between psychoanalysis and neuroscience can shed light on the transformational capacity of contemporary art.

Through neuroscienfitic and psychoanalytic exploration of the work of Diamante Faraldo, Ai Weiwei, Ida Barbarigo, Xavier Le Roy, Bill T. Jones, Cindy Sherman, Francis Bacon, Agnes Martin, and others, For Want of Ambiguity offers a new perspective on how insight is achieved and on how art opens us up to new ways of being.