The melancholy art

The melancholy art

by Holly, Michael Ann

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Melancholy is not only about sadness, despair, and loss. As Renaissance artists and philosophers acknowledged long ago, it can engender a certain kind of creativity born from a deep awareness of the mutability of life and the inevitable cycle of birth and death. Drawing on psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the intellectual history of the history of art, The Melancholy Art explores the unique connections between melancholy and the art historian's craft. Though the objects art historians study are …

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  • Full title :The melancholy art / Michael Ann Holly.

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Melancholy is not only about sadness, despair, and loss. As Renaissance artists and philosophers acknowledged long ago, it can engender a certain kind of creativity born from a deep awareness of the mutability of life and the inevitable cycle of birth and death. Drawing on psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the intellectual history of the history of art, The Melancholy Art explores the unique connections between melancholy and the art historian's craft. Though the objects art historians study are materially present in our world, the worlds from which they come are forever lost to.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2013

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The Physical Object

  • Description:XXV, 194 pàgines : : il·lustracions ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:0691139342, 9780691139340
  • oclc:on1224061666

Table of Contents

The melancholy art -- Viennese ghosts -- Stones of solace -- Patterns in the shadows -- Mourning and method

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Subjects

Art -- Historiografia Malenconia en l'art

Writers

Holly, Michael Ann

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