Image and symbol : some aspects of the creative impulse in the visual arts

Title: Image and symbol : some aspects of the creative impulse in the visual arts
Creator: Stonestreet, Lyn
ThesisAdvisor: Marais, Estelle
Subject: Art Symbolism in art
Date: 1984
Type: Thesis
Type: Masters
Type: MFA
Identifier: vital:2445
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006138
Description: From Introduction: The making of images has been a human activity since Prehistory, undergoing many and drastic changes over the centuries, but the symbols integral to images have proved enduring and recurrent. This is because the artist draws on that stratum of the psyche which C.G. Jung calls the collective unconscious: a universal archaic memory within the human mind, containing the archetypes of all human experience.In this essay I have dealt with aspects of two of these archetypes; the anima and, to a lesser extent, the mother. I have limited my study to the work of male artists. Long sanctioned by tradition, images of women as seen by men, have provided an acceptable vehicle for men to express their own female principle. As long as a man operates in the world with total apparant masculinity, the anima or female principle is repressed and denied at a conscious level.
Format: 73 leaves, pdf
Publisher: Rhodes University, Faculty of Humanities, Fine Art
Language: English
Rights: Stonestreet, Lyn

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