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Piero della Francesca's "Madonna del Parto", a celebrated fifteenth-century Tuscan fresco in which the Virgin gestures to her partially open dress and her pregnant womb, is highly unusual in its iconography. Hubert Damisch undertakes an anthropological and historical analysis of an artwork he constructs as a childhood dream of one of humanity's oldest preoccupations, the mysteries of our origins, of our conception and birth. At once parodying and paying homage to Freud's seminal essay on Leonardo da Vinci, Damisch uses Piero's enigmatic painting to narrate our archaic memories. He shows that we must return to Freud because work in psychoanalysis and art has not solved the problem of what is being analyzed: in the triangle of author, work, and audience, where is the psychoanalytic component located?

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Book category Books in English The arts Art forms Painting & paintings

• Full title: Childhood Memory by Piero della Francesca
• Author: Hubert Damisch
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 136
• EAN: 9780804734417
• ISBN: 0804734410
• ID: 04716885
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 272 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 26. June 2007

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