Meet the Author: Louis Rose

Brill Library Book Series

Meet the Author: Louis Rose

Monday, February 12, 2018

7:30 pm

The Friends of the Brill Library invite you to an evening with Louis Rose, the author of Psychology, Art, and Antifascism: Ernst Kris, E. H. Gombrich, and the Politics of Caricature (Yale University Press, October 2016).

“In this book, Louis Rose traces the path of two great Viennese intellectuals, Ernst Kris and E.H. Gombrich—one a psychoanalyst who emigrated to New York and the other an art historian exiled in London—who together elaborated how caricature emerged as an art form since the seventeenth century, until, by the twentieth, it could be used as an arm of propaganda in the struggle against fascism. A masterful and erudite study.”

Élisabeth Roudinesco, Université Paris Diderot

Louis Rose is Professor of Modern European History at Otterbein University, Executive Director of the Sigmund Freud Archives, and Editor of the interdisciplinary psychoanalytic journal American Imago. His book The Freudian Calling: Early Viennese Psychoanalysis and the Pursuit of Cultural Science (Wayne State, 1998) received the 1999 Austrian Cultural Institute Prize for Best Book in Austrian Studies. He is the author of The Survival of Images: Art Historians, Psychoanalysts, and the Ancients (Wayne State, 2001) and most recently Psychology, Art, and Antifascism: Ernst Kris, E. H. Gombrich, and the Politics of Caricature (Yale, 2016). He received his B.A. from Clark University and his Ph.D. in History from Princeton University. He is an Honorary Member of the American Psychoanalytic Association and a member of the History of Psychoanalysis Committee of the International Psychoanalytical Association.