Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART 1: The Melancholy Self
1. Da Vinci's Mona Lisa: Maternal Icon
2. Da Vinci's Mona Lisa: The Iconoclastic Backlash
3. Whistler's Mother: Object of Reverence
4. Whistler's Mother: Irreverent Reprisals
5. Rockwell's Shuffleton's Barbershop: On the Outside Looking In
PART 2: The Maternal World
6. Gifford's Kauterskill Clove: The Mother Outdoors
7. Inness's Sunrise: The Anonymous Figure
8. Grandma Moses's Little Boy Blue: The Watchful Mother
9. Irving's Rip Van Winkle: Imitating Nature's Repose
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Donald Capps is William Harte Felmeth Professor of Pastoral Theology Emeritus and Adjunct Professor at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is the author of Striking Out: The Religious Journey of Teenage Boys (Cascade Books, 2011) and Understanding Psychosis (2010), and is coauthor with Nathan Carlin of Living in Limbo: Life in the Midst of Uncertainty (Cascade Books, 2010).

Reviews

"Without feigning to give the final word on any of his chosen works of art, these careful and studied reflections by Capps are a means of developing a healthy, restorative vision of the melancholy self, and both undergraduate and graduate researchers will find the monograph both accessible to their abilities and quite applicable to the interests of pastoral theology."
-Taylor Worley, Theological Book Review, volume 26, no 1, 2014

"...this book does offer an intriguing foray into the dynamic dialogue which emerges from psychoanalysis, religion and art."
-Jessica Bratt, Scottish Journal of Theology, Vol. 69 Issue 02, May 2016