Böcker av Margaret Iversen

An introduction to 'Transitional Object (PsychoBarn)', Cornelia Parker's major installation in the courtyard of the Royal Academy of Arts, London, inspired by Hitchcock's 'Psycho' and Edward Hopper's paintings

Uses the writing of Freud, Lacan, the Surrealists, and Roland Barthes to elaborate a theory of art beyond the pleasure principle. Lacan was in close contact with the Surrealists and, early in his career, exchanged ideas with Dali. This book offers a reading of Dali's "paranoiac-critical" tour de force, "The Tragic Myth of Millet's Angelus".

Why did the history of art come into being? Is it now in danger of slipping into obsolescence? And, if so, should we care? This book proposes that we might reframe the questions concerning art history by asking what kind of writing might help the discipline to better imagine its actual practices - and its potential futures.