Homage to Sigmund Freud and his Dream Theory
Book series LOUNGE 2 – volume XIV
Editor: Kurt Ries
Artists have always been fascinated with dreams. Just like dreams, their paintings often show events simultaneously happening in the past, present and future. At times, their art depicts everyday objects in a new way and turns them into symbols. In this context, dreaming is understood as a more perceptive kind of seeing. Dreams mostly consist of pictures.
William Shakespeare’s play “A Midsummernight’s Dream” bears witness to the fact that the great playwright also delved into the world of dreams – dreams, too, tend to lack clarity and order. In this spirit, at the occasion of Sigmund Freud’s 170th birthday, 64 artists from 25 countries have come together to honor his dream theory with their open-minded imagination. The editor of this book has divided the artworks from around the world into chapters and added verses from Shakespeare’s play, quotes, art related slogans, and illustrations. In addition, several “megahits” from the world of classical music (by Franz Liszt, Robert Schumann, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) will be introduced. The result is a multifaceted homage from the animated perspective of modern artists.
International Artworks and Poems
Bilingual art gift book with 84 artworks, 2 poems and 7 verses from 22 countries.
Art and poetry from around the world
With verses of poems by William Shakespeare
While Freud’s theories have mostly been debunked today, the significance of his research for modern psychology cannot be overstated. Interpreting the dream symbols of our sex life became an important part of the new field of psychoanalysis, about which he penned 24 volumes. His “Interpretation of Dreams” was first published in November 1899. His experiments convinced Freud that the unconscious controlled a major part of our actions, and that external stimuli and internal excitations influenced each other. No philosophy has had as vast an impact on the art and literature of the 20th century as Freud’s. Following his ideas, the avant-garde radically broke with historic styles. Especially the surrealists strove to give shape to the unconscious, depict scenes from dreams and hallucinations, and put the irrational nature of the unconscious above order and reason. One of the most significant sister movements of surrealism is German romanticism. This, too, was a reaction to the demystification of the world, which is why the contemporary artworks in this book also make reference to exquisite works of music from the romantic era..
‘Dreams of Art’
The printed book is available in the book trade and in internet bookshops.
- Publisher: Re Di Roma-Verlag
- Language: English, German
- Size: 21 x 21 cm
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10: follows later
- ISBN-13: follows later
Book participants can purchase any number of the book from the German publisher or bookseller Peecho at the reduced author’s price. Please find more information here!
Book design awards – as part of the book project:
- Cover – 1st Prize: Lode Coen – Belgium
- Back cover – 2nd Prize: George Tkabladze – USA, Judith Stone – USA, Root Yarden – Israel
- Titel page – 3rd Prize: Jette van der Lende – Norway
- Chapter pages – Honorable Mentions: Ai-Wen Wu Kratz – USA, Dorte Bundesen – Denmark, Gerardo Labarca – Canada, Gregg Simpson – Canada, Joanna Rostanska – Poland, Patrick Egger– Switzerland, Vicky Tsalamata – Greece
Please see the images in the book!
