Art and the Creative Unconscious
Jung most original follower on where art comes from, taking in Leonardo, Chagall and the Great Mother, written at the end of a life cut short at fifty-five.
Neumann died at fifty-five, and these four essays are the fullest statement of what he thought art was for. He reads Leonardo and Chagall as cases, argues that the artist stands in a particular relation to the unconscious of an era, and treats the Great Mother archetype as the source rather than the subject of much Western image-making.
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The Jewish German analytical psychologist Erich Neumann (January 23, 1905–November 5, 1960) devoted his life to investigating these invisible processes, finally formulating his ideas in four essays published under the title Art and the Creative Unconscious (public library) just before his death.
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