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The gods of Freud : Sigmund Freud's art collection
Janine Burke.
Milsons Point, NSW ; Knopf Australia, 2006
ISBN: 1740513754
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Book description
Janine Burke, award-winning author and art historian, reveals an
intriguing new perspective on Sigmund Freud - as an obsessive art collector;
a passionate and reckless man intent on surrounding himself with beautiful
objects. Sigmund Freud's collection of Egyptian, Greek and Roman
antiquities must be one of the world's best-kept secrets. Over a
forty-year period he amassed an extraordinary array of nearly three thousand
statues, vases, reliefs, busts, fragments of papyrus, rings, precious stones
and prints. For Freud, psychoanalysis and his art collection developed
together in a symbiotic relationship, each informing and enriching the
other. To create a portrait of Freud the art collector, Janine Burke
builds a vibrant, richly detailed and intimate image of his life and times,
set against the glittering, decadent background of fin-de-siŠcle Vienna
where an artistic flowering took place in painting, theatre, writing and
architecture. [Publisher's website]
About the author
Dr. Janine Burke is an author and art historian
in the School of English, Communications and Performance Studies,
Faculty of Arts, Monash University. She is the award-winning author of
fifteen books of art history, biography and fiction. She has
written extensively on the Heide Circle, including Joy Hester (1983) and Dear Sun: The Letters of Joy Hester and Sunday Reed (1995). Dr. Burke has lectured extensively on art, curated
exhibitions, written for newspapers and journals and acted as a
consultant to films and documentaries.
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