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The twelve interdisciplinary essays collected here explore what Whitney Davis calls "replication" in archaeology, art history, and psychoanalysis--the sequential production of similar artifacts or images substitutable for one another in specific contexts of use. Davis suggests that while archaeology deals with the "physics" of replication (its material conditions and constraints), psychoanalysis deals with the "psychics" of replication (its mental conditions and constraints). Because art history is equally interested in the material properties and in the personal and cultural meaning of…
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1 edition- Other · English · 1996Pennsylvania State University Press · 352 pages · 9780271015231
Themes, motivesArt and societyPsychoanalysis and artArtArt, themes, motives, etc.ArchaeologyArt, historyPsychoanalysis