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Author Morra, Joanne, author.

Title Inside the Freud Museums : history, memory and site-responsive art / Joanne Morra
Published London : I.B. Tauris, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 308 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
Series International library of modern and contemporary art ; 6
International library of modern and contemporary art ; 6.
Contents 1. Staging psychoanalysis : a hagiographic museum in London -- 2. An archaeological impulse : uncovering a 'museum within a museum' -- 3. On dreaming and travelling through the unconscious -- 4. Approaching trauma : working towards a politics and ethics of art making -- 5. Autobiographical fictions : intimate encounters in the consulting room -- 6. Seemingly empty : a conceptual museum in Vienna
Summary "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 Berggasse 19, 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."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 -- Museums
SUBJECT Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 fast
Subject Freud Museum (London, England)
Sigmund Freud Museum (Vienna, Austria)
SUBJECT Freud Museum (London, England) fast
Sigmund Freud Museum (Vienna, Austria) fast
Subject Artists and museums.
Artists and museums
Museums
Form Electronic book
Author Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.
ISBN 9781350986831
1350986836
1786733056
9781786733054