Mary Bergstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 1126161 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Bergstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary |
| FAMILY NAME | Bergstein |
| SIGNATURE | BERGSTEIN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rhode Island School of Design |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Faux Nudes
The visual culture of the female nude in Western art, after decades of attention, possesses a considerable genealogy of critical scholarship. The photographic imagery of women’s bodies occupies a significant place in this legacy, yet there are areas of inquiry that have to date remained little examined. In this article I consider a small and eccentric group of images, made by commercial photographers for popular consumption, posed by the American…
Eros in Vienna
The female nude in photography has a complex history in Freud's Vienna. This paper examines photographic images of nude women and girls in the published art-historical studies of classical sculpture. Books on the "sciences" of health and well-being by authors like Carl Heinrich Stratz and Paul Schultze-Naumberg reproduced many photographs of nude women and children, especially young girls. Such visual material comes to bear on Freud's case-histor…
Photography in the Szondi Test
Léopold Szondi invented a projective test using photographs of people with mental pathologies to determine the unconscious, ancestral illnesses (or aptitudes) of his subjects. Szondi’s images were garnered from psychiatric textbooks published around 1900. Such photographs presumably revealed unconscious thoughts, desires, and destinies in the course of a test session. If a patient responded positively to a photo-portrait of a diagnosed ‘hysteric’…
Soul Machine
Reviewed by: Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind by George Makari Mary Bergstein (bio) Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind. George Makari. New York: W.W. Norton, 2015. 656 pp. In 2008, George Makari published Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis. Bruce Rudisch praised the book in American Imago as "an eye-opening paradigm shift in the telling of psychoanalytic history" (2009, p. 293). In that book Makari de-cen…
Hotel Michelangelo
Research Article| May 01 2016 Hotel Michelangelo Mary Bergstein Mary Bergstein MARY BERGSTEIN is the author of In Looking Back One Learns to See: Marcel Proust and Photography (2014), in addition to many other writings on photography. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2016) 43 (6): 9–12. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2016.43.6.9 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supple…
Freud's Uncanny Egypt
Egypt in all its guises—biblical, ancient, and modern—was a place of uncanny "otherness" in Freud's visual and historical imagination. This mental construct was formed from both hieroglyphic writing and Freud's collection of small-scale statuary. Uncanny visual representations of Egypt were also found in books and photographs in his archaeological library, as well as in wood engravings in the Philippson Bible, which he encountered for the first t…
Unser Herz zeigt nach dem Suden
Unser Herz zeigt nach dem Süden: Reisebriefe 1895-1923 [Our Heart Points to the South: Travel Letters 1895-1923]. Sigmund Freud. Ed. Christfried Tögel with the collaboration of Michael Molnar. Berlin: Aufbau-Verlag, 2002. 422 pp. 152 illus. Euro 25.00 (Euro 9.95 pb)
Gradiva Medica
"And she departed, after having introduced herself to us as the daughter of the zoologist and lizard catcher and after having, by all kinds of ambiguous remarks, admitted her therapeutic intention and other secret designs as well." —Freud, Delusions and Dreams in Jensen's "Gradiva" The second female practitioner of Freudian psychoanalysis (after Emma Eckstein, who, having been Freud's patient, herself began to treat others as early as 1897) was f…
The "Dying Slave" at Berggasse 19
In his introduction to "The Moses of Michelangelo," Freud stated, "Works of art do exercise a powerful effect on me, especially those of literature and sculpture, less often of painting" (1914, 211). Sculpture, with all its ambivalence as a surrogate for the human body, and its uncanny potential for "coming to life," is at the heart of Sigmund Freud's writings about visual art. This is exemplified in his essay on Michelangelo's Moses as well as h…
Global Interests
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Donatello's "Gattamelata" and Its Humanist Audience
Two small nude horsemen located in the armorial decoration of Donatello's Gattamelata yield new insights about the use of Greek sources in Renaissance art. Here it is speculated that Donatello was informed by a drawing or carved gemstone provided by Ciriaco d'Ancona that represented riders in the Panathenaic frieze on the Parthenon. Donatello may have included the figures as a learned reference to delight a circle of intellectuals in Padua, inclu…
My Laocoön
Richard Brilliant, My Laocoön: Alternative Claims in the Interpretation of Artworks. Berkeley: The University of California Press, 2000. 162 pp. inc. 27 b/w illus. $45. ISBN: 0-520-21682-2. - Volume 54 Issue 2
Revaluing Renaissance Art
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Marian Politics in Quattrocento Florence
On the Feastday of the Nativity of the Virgin, September 8, 1296, the papal legate of Boniface VIII, Pietro Valeriano di Piperno, blessed the rebuilding of the church of S. Reparata in Florence. In the ceremonial presence of the podestà, the Standard-Bearer of Justice, and the priors of the Signoria, he named the new cathedral “Santa Maria del Fiore.” Arnolfo di Cambio was made chief architect in charge of the renewal; and it was he who began a p…
Freud's Uncanny Egypt
Egypt in all its guises—biblical, ancient, and modern—was a place of uncanny "otherness" in Freud's visual and historical imagination. This mental construct was formed from both hieroglyphic writing and Freud's collection of small-scale statuary. Uncanny visual representations of Egypt were also found in books and photographs in his archaeological library, as well as in wood engravings in the Philippson Bible, which he encountered for the first t…
Marian Politics in Quattrocento Florence
On the Feastday of the Nativity of the Virgin, September 8, 1296, the papal legate of Boniface VIII, Pietro Valeriano di Piperno, blessed the rebuilding of the church of S. Reparata in Florence. In the ceremonial presence of the podestà, the Standard-Bearer of Justice, and the priors of the Signoria, he named the new cathedral “Santa Maria del Fiore.” Arnolfo di Cambio was made chief architect in charge of the renewal; and it was he who began a p…
My Laocoön
Richard Brilliant, My Laocoön: Alternative Claims in the Interpretation of Artworks. Berkeley: The University of California Press, 2000. 162 pp. inc. 27 b/w illus. $45. ISBN: 0-520-21682-2. - Volume 54 Issue 2
Revaluing Renaissance Art
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Global Interests
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Donatello's "Gattamelata" and Its Humanist Audience
Two small nude horsemen located in the armorial decoration of Donatello's Gattamelata yield new insights about the use of Greek sources in Renaissance art. Here it is speculated that Donatello was informed by a drawing or carved gemstone provided by Ciriaco d'Ancona that represented riders in the Panathenaic frieze on the Parthenon. Donatello may have included the figures as a learned reference to delight a circle of intellectuals in Padua, inclu…
Gradiva Medica
"And she departed, after having introduced herself to us as the daughter of the zoologist and lizard catcher and after having, by all kinds of ambiguous remarks, admitted her therapeutic intention and other secret designs as well." —Freud, Delusions and Dreams in Jensen's "Gradiva" The second female practitioner of Freudian psychoanalysis (after Emma Eckstein, who, having been Freud's patient, herself began to treat others as early as 1897) was f…
The "Dying Slave" at Berggasse 19
In his introduction to "The Moses of Michelangelo," Freud stated, "Works of art do exercise a powerful effect on me, especially those of literature and sculpture, less often of painting" (1914, 211). Sculpture, with all its ambivalence as a surrogate for the human body, and its uncanny potential for "coming to life," is at the heart of Sigmund Freud's writings about visual art. This is exemplified in his essay on Michelangelo's Moses as well as h…
Unser Herz zeigt nach dem Suden
Unser Herz zeigt nach dem Süden: Reisebriefe 1895-1923 [Our Heart Points to the South: Travel Letters 1895-1923]. Sigmund Freud. Ed. Christfried Tögel with the collaboration of Michael Molnar. Berlin: Aufbau-Verlag, 2002. 422 pp. 152 illus. Euro 25.00 (Euro 9.95 pb)
Freud's Uncanny Egypt
Egypt in all its guises—biblical, ancient, and modern—was a place of uncanny "otherness" in Freud's visual and historical imagination. This mental construct was formed from both hieroglyphic writing and Freud's collection of small-scale statuary. Uncanny visual representations of Egypt were also found in books and photographs in his archaeological library, as well as in wood engravings in the Philippson Bible, which he encountered for the first t…
Hotel Michelangelo
Research Article| May 01 2016 Hotel Michelangelo Mary Bergstein Mary Bergstein MARY BERGSTEIN is the author of In Looking Back One Learns to See: Marcel Proust and Photography (2014), in addition to many other writings on photography. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2016) 43 (6): 9–12. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2016.43.6.9 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supple…
Photography in the Szondi Test
Léopold Szondi invented a projective test using photographs of people with mental pathologies to determine the unconscious, ancestral illnesses (or aptitudes) of his subjects. Szondi’s images were garnered from psychiatric textbooks published around 1900. Such photographs presumably revealed unconscious thoughts, desires, and destinies in the course of a test session. If a patient responded positively to a photo-portrait of a diagnosed ‘hysteric’…
Soul Machine
Reviewed by: Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind by George Makari Mary Bergstein (bio) Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind. George Makari. New York: W.W. Norton, 2015. 656 pp. In 2008, George Makari published Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis. Bruce Rudisch praised the book in American Imago as "an eye-opening paradigm shift in the telling of psychoanalytic history" (2009, p. 293). In that book Makari de-cen…
Faux Nudes
The visual culture of the female nude in Western art, after decades of attention, possesses a considerable genealogy of critical scholarship. The photographic imagery of women’s bodies occupies a significant place in this legacy, yet there are areas of inquiry that have to date remained little examined. In this article I consider a small and eccentric group of images, made by commercial photographers for popular consumption, posed by the American…
Eros in Vienna
The female nude in photography has a complex history in Freud's Vienna. This paper examines photographic images of nude women and girls in the published art-historical studies of classical sculpture. Books on the "sciences" of health and well-being by authors like Carl Heinrich Stratz and Paul Schultze-Naumberg reproduced many photographs of nude women and children, especially young girls. Such visual material comes to bear on Freud's case-histor…
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