Sigmund Freud was a passionate collector of ancient art, ultimately amassing some 2000 works from Egypt, Greece, Rome and the near East and Asia. This book - originally published in conjunction with the Freud Museum in London and a touring exhibition of the finest pieces in the collection - examines what the works meant to Freud and the connections he made between art, antiquities, archaeology and psychoanalysis. The illustrations include colour plates of almost 90 antiquities, as well as documentary pictures of Freud's ...
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Sigmund Freud was a passionate collector of ancient art, ultimately amassing some 2000 works from Egypt, Greece, Rome and the near East and Asia. This book - originally published in conjunction with the Freud Museum in London and a touring exhibition of the finest pieces in the collection - examines what the works meant to Freud and the connections he made between art, antiquities, archaeology and psychoanalysis. The illustrations include colour plates of almost 90 antiquities, as well as documentary pictures of Freud's life and home.
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Publisher:
Binghamton, NY & London, England: The State Univ. of NY, Binghamton &...
Language:
English
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16850376644
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4to. 192 pp. Soft, color pictorial wraps. Good with marginal edgewear and sunning. 100 plates, including 87 in full color. Includes texts by Richard Wells, Peter Gay, Lynn Gamwell, Donald Kuspit, Ellen Handler Spitz, Martin S. Bergmann, Wendy Botting and J. Keith Davis. First softcover edition. From the Collection of the Art Historian Peter Selz.