Dreams 19002000 by Lynn Gamwell

Dreams 19002000 by Lynn Gamwell

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When Sigmund Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900, he began the modern study of a phenomenon that has fascinated human beings for thousands of years. At the same time he opened a new realm, the unconscious mind, to filmmakers and...

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Dreams 19002000 by Lynn Gamwell

When Sigmund Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900, he began the modern study of a phenomenon that has fascinated human beings for thousands of years. At the same time he opened a new realm, the unconscious mind, to filmmakers and...

Although it is an exhibition catalog.. it stands alone as solid cultural history and fascinating reading... Well produced, informative, and accessable, this book will appeal to readers involved with psychology, any of the arts, or Western history in general.

* Library Journal *

Lynn Gamwell has collected an extraordinary selection of portraits, pictures, and essays related to dreams, compiled into an exquisite book. It would be a pleasurable addition to your dream library and adornment to your coffee table... The incredible creative power of the dream excites the reader of this fine volume... Well worth purchasing and perusing.

* Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences *

Lynn Gamwell is Director of the Art Museum at the State University of New York, Binghamton, and she curates the Gallery of Art and Science in cooperation with the New York Academy of Sciences. She is coauthor with Donald Kuspit of Health and Happiness in Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde Art and with Nancy Tomes of Madness in America: Cultural and Medical Perceptions of Mental Illness before 1914, both from Cornell.

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ISBN 13 9780801437304
ISBN 10 080143730X
Title Dreams 19002000
Author Lynn Gamwell
Series Cornell Studies In The History Of Psychiatry
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Cornell University Press
Year published 1999-11-02
Number of pages 320
Prizes Winner of Winner of the Gradiva Prize for the Best Historica.
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.