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Tag: Sigmund Freud

‘Voice’ by So Mayer

10th March 20211st June 2021  So Mayer

After seeing artist Charlotte Salomon’s work in an exhibition before the first lockdown, So Mayer started to reflect on the evolution of Salomon’s innovative, word-strewn paintings. Here, they consider how Salomon’s work conjures and embodies a unique voice, a bold assertion of self that defies curatorial and art historical prejudices.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Alfred Eolfsohn, Artist, Bizet, Carmen, Charlotte Salomon, Freud, holocaust, James Joyce, Leben? oder Theater?, opera, painting, psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, So Mayer, Toni Bentley, voice

Postcards in Isolation 14: Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare, 1782

12th July 202012th July 2020  Miriam Al Jamil

Delving into the rich traditions of gothic literature, sentimental fiction and old folk tales, Henry Fuseli’s The Nightmare, 1782, appears from another world. But not so, says Miriam Al Jamil, who recognises in the painting an awareness of human psychology foreshadowing that found in modern psycho-analysis, dream theory and psychiatry.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Covid-19, Dreaming, dreams, eighteenth-century, Freud, Gothic Fiction, Henri Fuseli, Lockdown Living, Miriam Al Jamil, painting, Postcards in Isolation, Psycho-analysis, Psychology, Rochelle Roberts, Romantics, Sigmund Freud, The Nightmare

The Monstrous Feminine: Reflections on the Moving Figure of Medusa in the work of Vardimon, Graham and Bausch.

22nd December 201822nd December 2018  Christy Wensley

Christy Wensley reflects on the representation of Medusa in literary and performative art after seeing Jasmin Vardimon’s latest piece, Medusa, at Sadler’s Wells.

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Posted in Arts, DanceTagged: Contemporary dance, Dance, Dorothea Smartt, Hélène Cixous, Jacques Lacan, Jasmin Vardimon, Jean-Paul Sartre, Martha Graham, Medusa, Pina Bausch, Sadler's Wells, Sigmund Freud, Sylvia Plath
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    By Lottie Whalen
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    By Catherine Norris
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    By Jennifer Brough
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