Creative States of Mind: Psychoanalysis and the Artist's Process

ISBN-13: 9780367146160 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 136 str.

Patricia Townsend

Opis

Drawing on interviews with professional artists, this book takes the reader inside the creative process. The author, an artist and a psychotherapist, uses psychoanalytic theory to shed light on fundamental questions such as the origin of new ideas and the artist’s state of mind while working.

O autorze

Patricia Townsend is an artist, working with video, photography and installation, and a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. Her artworks have been exhibited widely and her writing on psychoanalysis and the artist’s process has appeared in a variety of publications. She recently completed a PhD at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London.