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It Hurts!

Violence against Women in Art and Psychoanalysis
  • Edited by: Elana Shapira and Daniela Finzi
Languages: English, German
Published/Copyright: 2025
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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.

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With contributions in English and German and German and English abstracts

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Elana Shapira, cultural and art historian and lecturer at the Cultural Studies department at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, author of Style and Seduction: Jewish Patrons, Architecture and Design in Fin de Siècle Vienna (2016), editor of Design Dialogue (2018), Designing Transformation (2021) and the forthcoming Austrian Identity and Modernity (2025), and co-editor of Freud and the Émigré (2020), Gestalterinnen. Frauen, Design und Gesellschaft im Wien der Zwischenkriegszeit (2023) and the forthcoming Ella Briggs (2025).

Daniela Finzi, literary and cultural scholar, head of the research department of the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna and member of the board of the Sigmund Freud Foundation, author of Unterwegs zum Anderen? Literarische Er-Fahrungen der kriegerischen Auflösung Jugoslawiens aus deutschsprachiger Perspektive (2013), and co-editor of Dora, Hysteria and Gender (2020), Freud and the Émigré (2020), and Freud. Berggasse 19 (2020).


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I Violence and Performance in Vienna and Beyond

Szenen sexueller Gewalt in Oskar Kokoschkas Frühwerk
Régine Bonnefoit
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Critiquing Austrian Masculinity
Patricia Allmer
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Schreiben bei Hélène Cixous als ethisch-ästhetische Aufgabe
Elisabeth Schäfer
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II Nationalism and Violence in Latin America

Feminist, Surrealist, Revolutionary
Dawn Ades
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Grete Sterns ungehorsame Träume
Christina Wieder
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III Violent Confrontations in the United States

Gabriela Glăvan
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Ana Mendieta’s Violent Tableaux
Angelique Szymanek
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Gewaltdarstellung und Verteidigung im Werk von Kiki Kogelnik
Lisa Ortner-Kreil
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Jeannette Fischer
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IV Protesting Politics of Terror in the Middle East

Soli Kiani and Monika Pessler
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Israeli Artists Hava Raucher and Sigalit Landau Confront the Sexual Violence of October 7, 2023
Mor Presiado
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Darstellung von Gewalt gegen Frauen in Kunst und Psychoanalyse
Elana Shapira and Daniela Finzi
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eBook published on:
June 16, 2025
eBook ISBN:
9783111336077
Paperback published on:
June 16, 2025
Paperback ISBN:
9783111335964
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
204
Coloured Illustrations:
60
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