Art and Act

Name: Art and Act
Author: Peter Gay

by Peter Gay

Essays on relationship between artistic creation and historical circumstance

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Peter Gay

Gay's Freud: A Life for Our Time is the most comprehensive modern biography of Freud. His Bourgeois Experience series is a monumental account of 19th-century middle-class culture in its emotional and erotic dimensions.

More by Peter Gay

Freud: A Life for Our TimeComprehensive biography of Sigmund Freud and the development of psychoanalysis
The EnlightenmentIntellectual history of Enlightenment thought and philosophy across Europe
The Bourgeois ExperienceMulti-volume social history of bourgeois experience in nineteenth century
Weimar CultureCultural history of Weimar Germany's artistic ferment and social crisis