Psychoanalysis, the study of the unconscious, has provided artists
in the 20th and 21st centuries with both a visual language and valuable psychological tools to address the social phenomenon
of violence against women. The volume presents groundbreaking research on various representations of gender-based violence
in art. The book aims to examine the cultural constructions embedded in this phenomenon and to explore the different strategies
that have been developed on different continents to counteract it. The artists featured are Oskar Kokoschka, María Izquierdo,
Grete Stern, Dorothea Tanning, Ana Mendieta, Kiki Kogelnik, Marina Abramović, Soli Kiani, Sigalit Landau, and Hava Raucher,
as well as the filmmaker Ruth Beckermann and the philosopher Hélène Cixous.
With contributions in English and
German and German and English abstracts
Elana Shapira, Department of Cultural Studies, Institute
of Studies in Art and Art Education, University of Applied Arts Vienna
Daniela Finzi, literary and cultural
scholar, head of the research department of the Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna, and board member of the Sigmund Freud Foundation
