Psychology, art, and antifascism
Subtitle: Ernst Kris, E.H. Gombrich, and the politics of caricature
By: Louis Rose
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9780300221473
Subjects: Psychology and art; Biography; Art historians
Description: "In 1934, Viennese art historian and psychoanalyst Ernst Kris invited his mentee E.H. Gombrich to collaborate on a project that had implications for psychology and neuroscience, and foreshadowed their contributions to the Allied war effort. Their subject: caricature and its use and abuse in propaganda. Their collaboration was a seminal early effort to integrate science, the humanities, and political awareness. In this fascinating biographical and intellectual study, Louis Rose explores the content of Kris and Gombrich's project and its legacy"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-285) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Unfinished Project; title: Toward a Psychology of Art, 1919-32; title: The Vienna-London Connection, 1932-36; title: Daumier in Vienna, 1936; title: The Caricature Book, 1936-38; title: From Vienna to London and New York, 1938-41; title: War Work, 1941-45; title: Between Past and Future, 1945-65.