Read
the October 2009 New York Times article about the
publication of Jung's
"Red Book"
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/magazine/20jung-t.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
See the video of the copying of Jung's
Red Book
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIBQFSwX1UY
What's
happening in Zurich, Switzerland (at IZAP Zurich)
about the publcation of The Red Book?
http://www.isapzurich.com/attachments/020_Event%20Red%20Book%2009.pdf
The Red Book
is currently on display at the
Rubin Museum of Art,
150 West 17th Street,
New York, NY 10011
212-620-5000
http://www.rmanyc.org/
For the Rubin Museum's impressive
Full Color
Red Book
Brochure,
announcing
"The Red Book Dialogues"
go here:
http://docs.rma2.org/programming/The%20Red%20Book%20Dialogues%20brochure.pdf
You will be able to HEAR the Red Book Dialogues online at
WNYC.org
or SEE the videos at
http://www.rmanyc.org/
Product
Description
The
most influential unpublished work in the history of
psychology. When Carl Jung embarked on an extended
self-exploration he called his “confrontation with the
unconscious,” the heart of it was The Red
Book,
a large,
illuminated volume he created between 1914 and 1930. Here
he developed his principle theories—of the archetypes,
the collective unconscious, and the process of
individuation—that transformed psychotherapy
from a practice concerned with treatment of the sick into a
means for higher development of the personality.
While Jung
considered The Red
Book to be his most
important work, only a handful of people have
ever seen it. Now, in a complete facsimile and translation,
it is available to scholars and the general public. It is
an astonishing example of calligraphy and art on a par
with The
Book of Kells and the illuminated manuscripts
of William Blake. This publication of The Red Book
is a watershed that
will cast new light on the making of modern psychology.
212 color illustrations.
About the Author
Sonu
Shamdasani, a preeminent Jung historian, is Reader in Jung
History at Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of
Medicine at University College London. He lives in London,
England.
The Red Book of C. G.
Jung Programs
The Red Book Dialogues
In the spirit of
RMA's exhibition The Red Book of C.G.
Jung,
personalities from many different walks of life will be
paired on stage with a psychoanalyst and invited to respond
to and interpret a folio from Jung's Red Book as a starting point for a wide ranging
conversation.
The guests include composer John Adams, performance artist
Marina Abramovic, director John Boorman, musician/artist
David Byrne, actress Kathleen Chalfant, Zipcar entrepreneur
Robin Chase, Smashing Pumpkins lead Billy Corgan, director
Andre Gregory, New
Yorker writer
Adam Gopnik, author Andrew Harvey, screenwriter Charlie
Kaufman, documentarian Albert Maysles, graphic designer
Stefan Sagmeister, Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist
of Doubt, John Patrick Shanley; poets Linda Gregg
and Tracy K. Smith, painter Philip Taaffe, novelists Gloria
Vanderbilt and Alice Walker, and philosopher Cornel West.
Audio podcasts of most of The Red Book Dialogues will be
posted on WNYC.org's Talk to Me series.
Video podcasts of selected Red Book Dialogues will be
available here, on www.rmanyc.org
Join the mailing list
here to
receive notices of these postings on a regular basis.
See
The Red Book Programming Brochure
April 2009
FROM THE PHILEMON FOUNDATION www.philemonfoundation.org
C. G. Jung’s magnum opus, the
Red Book, will be published by W. W. Norton and Co on
October 7, 2009. The Red Book is the third volume of our
Philemon Series.
This magnificent
publication will significantly affect our understanding of
Jung’s personal journey, and the origins and implications
of his remarkable psychology. I believe that it will also
have a major impact on how we understand our own pathway to
individuation and our relationship to the soul.
The folio size (11.57 inches by 15.35 inches) volume
consists of 205 pages of text and paintings from Jung’s
masterful calligraphic hand and skilled brush. Of the 205
pages, 53 pages are full painted images, 71 pages contain
both text and image and 81 pages are pure calligraphic
text. The Red Book brings to mind such illuminated works as
the The Book of Kells and the prophetic books of William
Blake.
The volume, exactly the same size as the original, consists
of a full facsimile of Jung’s work, printed on the highest
quality paper and with exquisite attention paid to
reproducing Jung’s calligraphy and paintings as faithfully
as possible. The English edition will include more than 200
additional pages (amounting to 220,000 words) that with
will present a translation of the newly reconstructed text,
scholarly apparatus, introduction and appendices. Editions
are planned in German, Japanese, Italian and other
languages.
The Red Book published by W.W. Norton & Company
(www.wwnorton.com), is a scholarly and historical edition
made accessible to the general reader by an introduction
that sketches the social and intellectual context of the
work, its history, and the circumstances in which it arose.
The volume is edited by Dr. Sonu Shamdasani, General Editor
of the Philemon Foundation and Philemon Reader in Jung
History at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of
Medicine at University College, London. The Red Book has
been translated by Dr. Sonu Shamdasani, Dr. Mark Kyburz and
Dr. John Peck.
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 2009
RUBIN
MUSEUM OF ART PRESENTS FIRST PUBLIC SHOWING OF
JUNG’S
RED BOOK,
A FOUNDATIONAL TOME OF CONTEMPORARY CULTURE
Exhibition
Makes Visible the Visual Oeuvre of A Founding Father of
Modern Psychology
New York, NY —
The preeminent psychologist C. G. Jung (1875‐1961)
considered his Liber Novus, the famous Red Book, to be the
“prima materia for a lifetime’s work.” Many contemporary
scholars regard it as the most influential unpublished work
in the history of psychology.
Now this cultural touchstone—in which Jung developed his
principal theories of archetypes, collective unconscious,
and the process of individuation—is to go on public view
for the first time in a special showing at the Rubin Museum
of Art, West 17th Street and Seventh Avenue. Entitled The
Red Book of C. G. Jung: Creation of a New Cosmology, the
exhibition from October 7, 2009, to January 25, 2010,
coincides with a major event in publishing: W.W. Norton
& Company’s publication of a facsimile and translation
of Jung’s original.
For a book that would transform psychotherapy from a
practice concerned with the treatment of the sick into a
means for the higher development of the personality, the
Red Book is a strange hybrid of thought and image taking
the form of a 11.57 x 15.35 inch red leather‐bound
manuscript. In more than two‐thirds of its pages, Jung
paired his abstract and narrative brightly hued graphic
forms with thoughts written in a beautiful calligraphic
style.
The work has never been seen in public before, outside the
circle of Jung’s family. Alongside the Red Book the Rubin
Museum will present a number of oil, chalk, and tempera
paintings and preparatory sketches related to the Red Book
and other original manuscripts, including the Black Books,
which contain ideas and fantasies leading up to the Red
Book. In addition, copies of the new publication will be
available for perusal in a reference area in the gallery.
“This exhibition will cast new light on the genesis of
Jung’s work and the making of modern psychology, and open
up possibilities for understanding how mandalas and
mandala‐like structures are understood across cultures,”
says Martin Brauen, Chief Curator, Rubin Museum of Art.
Dr. Brauen, who is particularly interested in the
mandala‐like paintings in the Red Book, first encountered
Jung’s work as a student at the Jung Institute in Zurich
and in his own research into mandalas. Mandala: The Perfect
Circle, an exhibition he is organizing, will be on view
concurrently at the museum with the Red Book this fall.
“Jung described the mandala as an “archetype of wholeness,”
continues Brauen. “The Red Book of C. G. Jung is in some
way the focal point of all of the exhibitions we will
present in Fall and Winter 2009/2010.”
(As well as Mandala: The Perfect Circle [August 14, 2009 –
January 11, 2010], the Rubin Museum exhibition schedule
includes Victorious Ones: Jain Images of Perfection
[September 18, 2009 – February 15, 2010] and Visions of the
Cosmos: From Milky Ocean to Black Hole [December 11, 2009 –
May 10, 2010].)
Visitors to the Rubin Museum will be invited to see the
ways in which Jung sought to translate the symbols he
encountered in dreams and fantasies into contemporary
graphic form, often using the circular diagrams of the
mandala, which resembles structures represented in Tibetan
Buddhist art. On display will be Jung’s first known
mandala‐like work: Systema mundi totius (1916), a cosmic
representation of his reflections on spirituality and the
soul, drawn from a series of recorded personal fantasies.
Jung considered this work‐ —along with about 25 mandala
sketches that he created while serving as a Medical Corps
Doctor and Commander of a British internment camp in
Switzerland during the last two years of World War I—to be
important documentations of his psychological and spiritual
development.
The works of art and archival materials included in The Red
Book of C.G. Jung are on loan from the Foundation for the
Works of C. G. Jung, the Jung family private archive, and
private collections.
About RMA
RMA holds one of the world’s most
important collections of Himalayan art.Paintings, pictorial
textiles, andsculpture are drawn from cultures that touch
upon the arc of mountains that extends from Afghanistan in
the northwest to Myanmar (Burma) in the southeast and
includes Tibet, Nepal, Mongolia, and Bhutan. The larger
Himalayan cultural sphere, determined by significant
cultural exchange over millennia, includes Iran, India,
China, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia. This rich cultural
legacy, largely unfamiliar to Western viewers, offers an
uncommon opportunity for visual adventure and aesthetic
discovery.
Admission to RMA is $10 for adults; $7 for seniors, middle‐
and high‐school students, and artists (with ID); $2 for
college students (with ID); $7 for neighbors (zip codes
10011 & 10001 with ID); free for seniors the first
Monday of every month; and free for children under 12 and
for museum members. Gallery admission is free to all on
Fridays between 7 pm and 10 pm.
Open Monday 11 am to 5 pm, Wednesday 11 am to 7 pm,
Thursday 11 am to 5 pm, Friday 11 am to 10 pm, Saturday and
Sunday from 11 am to 6 pm; closed on Tuesday. To reach the
museum by subway, visitors may take the A, C or E to 14th
Street; the 1 to 18th Street; 1, 2, 3 to 14th Street; F and
V to 14th Street; N, R, Q, W, 4, 5 and 6 to 14th or the L
to 6th Avenue. By bus, visitors may take the B20 to the
corner of 7th Avenue and 17th Street.