A Childhood Memory by Piero della Francesca Hardback
by Hubert Damisch
Part of the Cultural Memory in the Present series
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Piero della Francesca's Madonna del Parto, a celebrated fifteenth-century Tuscan fresco in which the Virgin gestures to her partially open dress and her pregnant womb, is highly unusual in its iconography.
Hubert Damisch undertakes an anthropological and historical analysis of an artwork he constructs as a childhood dream of one of humanity's oldest preoccupations, the mysteries of our origins, of our conception and birth.
At once parodying and paying homage to Freud's seminal essay on Leonardo da Vinci, Damisch uses Piero's enigmatic painting to narrate our archaic memories.
He shows that we must return to Freud because work in psychoanalysis and art has not solved the problem of what is being analyzed: in the triangle of author, work, and audience, where is the psychoanalytic component located?
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:136 pages
- Publisher:Stanford University Press
- Publication Date:26/06/2007
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- ISBN:9780804734417
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:136 pages
- Publisher:Stanford University Press
- Publication Date:26/06/2007
- Category:
- ISBN:9780804734417
