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Ellen Handler Spitz is an American writer and academic noted for her expertise on children,〔(''When Picasso and Klee Were Very Young: The Art of Childhood.'', ), nytimes.com; accessed 9 August 2015.〕 psychology, and the arts. She is an internationally acclaimed author and lecturer on children’s cultural lives〔(“About the Advisors to Parenting Conversations,” ), parentingconversations.com; accessed 1 Aug 2015.〕 and on children’s literature.〔(“Gods and Monsters: An art historian seeks to identify the enduring appeal of classic children's picture books.” ), nytimes.com; accessed 3 August 2015.〕〔(“Shelf Life; Stories That Reverberate in Mother's Voice: Good Night, Childhood” ), nytimes.com; accessed 1 August 2015.〕 She is known for her numerous articles in The New Republic〔(“Ellen Handler Spitz” ), newrepublic.com; accessed 3 July 2015.〕 examining how the arts and culture interweave and continuously transform daily life from explorations of Maurice Sendak and sexuality to the role of children's books in India.〔('Wonderful World of Children.'' ), thehindu.com; accessed 7 August 2015.〕 She is an internationally noted authority on psychoanalysis and the arts.〔“Prepared introduction by Peter Loewenberg to invited lecture by EHS at the International Psychoanalytic Association Congress, Boston, 7-24, 2015"”〕 ==Books== Drawing on her early experience as an artist, Ellen Handler Spitz then went on to establish her writing career by exploring the arts psychologically and by examining their relationship to childhood. Her work ranges topically from painting and sculpture to observations on ancient Greek drama and children's literature, but it always concerns the triumvirate of art, psychology, and childhood. Art and Psyche Spitz's closely argued book, ''Art and Psyche'', explores the relations between art and mind by using psychoanalytic thought. It uniquely demonstrates how three major models follow the history of ideas --- in art and literary criticism, in philosophical aesthetics, and in the development of psychoanalytic theory. Spitz's models are: the relations between an artist’s life and work, the work of art itself, and the relations between a work of art and its audience or beholders. To illustrate her theoretical discussion, Spitz draws on a wide variety of art forms, including painting, sculpture, literature, music, and dance. ''Art and Psyche'' is read on college campuses both in the US and abroad and has been translated into Italian, Chinese, and Serbian.〔(“UMETNOST I PSIHA” ), clio.rs; accessed 7 August 2015.〕 Image and Insight ''Image and Insight'' examines the strenuous paradox of looking within and outward at the same time. Spitz's metaphor for this project is Teiresias, the blind seer of ancient Greece, and she works psychologically with a wide swath of subjects including 1970s NYC subway car graffiti, a 1987 exhibition of African sculpture, a composition of postmodern music, and paintings by a schizophrenic child, among others. Museums of the Mind ''Museums of the Mind'' begins with a psychologically inflected, thematic study of selected paintings by the distinguished Belgian Surrealist René Magritte, in which Spitz traces the effects of the artist's mother's suicide by drowning when he was a boy. Noted art critic Donald Kuspit writes "This section on Magritte is perhaps the definitive analysis of his art."〔Spitz, Ellen, Museums of the Mind, Yale University Press, 1994, back cover.〕 Spitz's work on Magritte is the only extant book-length study of the artist from a psychoanalytic perspective, and it was reissued in 2014 as an eBook under the title ''Magritte's Labyrinth.''〔()"Magritte's Labyrinth", itunes.apple.com; accessed 19 October 2015〕 Inside Picture Books ''Inside Picture Books'' poses the question as to why stories and images shown to us as children linger in our minds. How is it that some children's books survive while others fade? Using her psychological acumen, Spitz reveals how classic children's books transmit wisdom, shape tastes, implant subtle biases, and stimulate moral reflection. She advocates for conversational reading between adults and children and addresses powerful topics such as curiosity, identity and self-acceptance, separation and loss, as well as disobedience. ''Inside Picture Books'' has been acclaimed as a classic in the field and praised by such notables as Quentin Blake, Marina Warner, Judith Wallerstein, Pat Schroeder, Maria Tatar, and Pamela Paul. The Brightening Glance In ''The Brightening Glance'', Spitz asks how the imagination emerges and develops in young children. She shows how a child's gaze magnifies the sensory and perceptual world and how children make no hard distinctions between art and nature, reality and make-believe. Aesthetic and psychological growth intersect, she reveals, and she shows how, by observing what holds a child's attention, we can promote growth and also rediscover our own worlds through freshly reawakened eyes. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ellen Handler Spitz」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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