Ellen Handler Spitz

Ellen Handler Spitz

Ellen Handler Spitz (* 1939 ) is an American art historian with an interdisciplinary focus on the visual arts and psychology . Spitz has been Professor of Visual Arts at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) since 2001 .

Life

Ellen Handler Spitz studied art history at Barnard Women's College , which she graduated from with a BA. At Harvard University she continued her studies up to the Master of Arts in Teaching: Fine Arts (roughly: Art in Teaching ). Spitz received his PhD from Columbia University in 1983. Her dissertation was entitled Art and Psyche . She was a fellow with a year-long residency at the Getty Center , the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and the Center for Children and Childhood Studies at Rutgers University . She has been Professor of Visual Arts at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County since 2001 . In addition to her monographs on psychoanalysis in art and art for children, she is a regular contributor to journals such as the Journal of Aesthetic Education and American Imago . In the New York Times Book Review and in the Chronicle of Higher Education they reviewed regularly releases of children's literature . She lives in Baltimore .

Works (selection)

• Art and Psyche: A Study in Psychoanalysis and Aesthetics . Yale University Press, New Haven 1985, ISBN 0-300-03372-9 .
• Image and Insight: Essays in Psychoanalysis and the Arts . Columbia University Press, New York 1991, ISBN 0-231-07296-1 .
• Museums of the Mind: Magritte's Labyrinth and Other Essays in the Arts . Yale University Press, New Haven 1994, ISBN 0-300-06029-7 .
• Inside Picture Books . Yale University Press, New Haven 1999, ISBN 0-300-07602-9 .
• The Brightening Glance: Imagination and Childhood . Pantheon Books, New York 2006, ISBN 0-375-42058-4 .

Web links

• Personal website of Ellen Handler Spitz
• Homepage of Ellen Handler Spitz at the Department of Visual Arts at UMBC