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The Inkblots

Autor Damion Searls
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 21 feb 2017
The captivating, untold story of Hermann Rorschach and his famous inkblot test, which has shaped our view of human personality and become a fixture in popular culture
In 1917, working alone in a remote Swiss asylum, psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach devised an experiment to probe the human mind. For years he had grappled with the theories of Freud and Jung while also absorbing the aesthetic of a new generation of modern artists. He had come to believe that who we are is less a matter of what we say, as Freud thought, than what we see.
Rorschach himself was a visual artist, and his test, a set of ten carefully designed inkblots, quickly made its way to America, where it took on a life of its own. Co-opted by the military after Pearl Harbor, it was a fixture at the Nuremberg trials and in the jungles of Vietnam. It became an advertising staple, a cliche in Hollywood and journalism, and an inspiration to everyone from Andy Warhol to Jay-Z. The test was also given to millions of defendants, job applicants, parents in custody battles, workers applying for jobs, and people suffering from mental illness or simply trying to understand themselves better. And it is still used today.
Damion Searls draws on unpublished letters and diaries, and a cache of previously unknown interviews with Rorschach s family, friends, and colleagues, to tell the unlikely story of the test s creation, its controversial reinvention, and its remarkable endurance and what it all reveals about the power of perception. Elegant and original, The Inkblots shines a light on the twentieth century s most visionary synthesis of art and science."
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ISBN-13: 9780804136549
ISBN-10: 0804136548
Pagini: 414
Dimensiuni: 167 x 244 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Editura: Random House
Colecția Crown Books

Notă biografică

Damion Searls has written for Harper’s, n+1, and The Paris Review, and has translated the work of authors including Rainer Maria Rilke, Marcel Proust, and five Nobel Prize winners. He has been the recipient of Guggenheim, NEA, and Cullman Center fellowships.