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A 4 page paper which examines what
influence psychoanalytical theory had on the representation of the body in 20th century
art. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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4 pages (~225 words per page)
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this fact it comes as no surprise that the field of psychoanalysis brought about social change that influenced artistic change. Artists have always been individuals who serve to illustrate the
social changes and social conditions. In regards to the artists of the 20th century, as well as today, many of the took psychoanalysis and used it to some degree in
their art as it involved the body. This was perhaps especially the case with many women as feminist art has grown over the past few decades. With these perspectives in
mind the following paper examines how psychoanalytical theory influenced the representation of the body in 20th century art, focusing primarily on women Psychoanalysis and Body Art The first
informative examination of the relationship between art and psychoanalysis comes from a book review of "Cutting the Body: Representing Woman in Baudelaires Poetry, Truffauts Cinema, and Freuds Psychoanalysis" by Eliane
DalMolin." The critic states, "This book is about how poets, film-makers and psychoanalysts look upon the female body, how they examine it in detail as if dissecting it, at times
relishing it, at others anguishing over its fragmentation, ultimately it is about how, by cutting womans body, poets, film-makers, and psychoanalysts create and think. More specifically, this book is about
how Charles Baudelaire, Fran?ois Truffaut, and Sigmund Freud, based on their inheritance of lyricism, shaped and perpetuated a cultural understanding of women that they continued to represent in late romantic
images, despite their respective innovative talent and influence in bringing about decisive cultural moments: Modernism, New Wave cinema, and psychoanalysis" (Editors Books, 2003). This tells us that the figure
of women was chopped up by the thought presented in psychoanalysis. It perpetuated the abstract cutting up women in art, and that art was clearly not confined to art only
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