Inside the Freud Museums: History, Memory and Site-Responsive Art

ISBN-13: 9781780762074 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 320 str.

Joanna Morra

Opis

Sigmund Freud spent the final year of his life at 20 Maresfield Gardens, London, surrounded by all his possessions, in exile from the Nazis. The long-term home and workspace he left behind in Vienna is a seemingly empty space, devoid of the great psychoanalyst's objects and artefacts. Now museums, both of these spaces resonate powerfully. Since 1989, the Freud Museum London has held over 70 exhibitions by a distinctive range of artists including Louise Bourgeois, Sophie Calle, Mat Collishaw, Susan Hiller, Sarah Lucas and Tim Noble and Sue Webster. The Sigmund Freud Museum Vienna houses a small but impressive contemporary art collection, with work by John Baldessari, Joseph Kosuth, Jenny Holzer, Franz West and Ilya Kabakov. In this remarkable book, Joanne Morra offers a nuanced analysis of these historical museums and their unique relationships to contemporary art. Taking us on a journey through the 'site-responsive' artworks, exhibitions and curatorial practices that intervene in the objects, spaces and memories of these Museums, Joanne Morra offers a fresh experience of the history and practice of psychoanalysis, of museums and contemporary art.

Spis treści

PrefaceAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Staging Psychoanalysis: A Hagiographic Museum in London2. An Archaeological Impulse: Uncovering a 'Museum within a Museum'3. On Dreaming and Travelling Through the Unconscious4. Approaching Trauma: Working Towards a Politics and Ethics of Art Making5. Autobiographical Fictions: Intimate Encounters in the Consulting Room6. Seemingly Empty: A Conceptual Museum in ViennaAfterword NotesSelect BibliographyIllustrations and CreditsIndex

O autorze

Joanna Morra is Reader in Art History and Theory at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London. She is the founder and principal editor of the Journal of Visual Culture.