Spitz, Ellen.
“Image and Insight: Essays in Psychoanalysis and the Arts.” Journal of Aesthetics & Art Criticism.
Ed. David Novitz. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991. 12-273. Web. Editor
Novitz reviews the collection of twelve essays in Spitz’s book where she
discusses aesthetic pleasure in regards to subway- car graffiti in New York
City. According to the review, Spitz associates the act of graffiti not only to
resistance of authority but also to beautifying space. She outlines the intimate relationship adolescence
graffiti writers experience to this art making process and the desire of viewers
to touch and hold them. Hence creating an aesthetic experience. However, this
response she later contradicts by stating that it is not an appropriate
response to determining art but instead one should take in account the constraints
and conventions behind the art form.
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