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The Melancholy Art
Michael Ann Holly
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Description for The Melancholy Art
Hardback. Series: Essays in the Arts. Num Pages: 224 pages, 41 halftones. BIC Classification: ABA; AC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 161 x 18. Weight in Grams: 588.
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 time. In this eloquent and inspiring book, Michael ... Read more
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 time. In this eloquent and inspiring book, Michael ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Series
Essays in the Arts
Condition
New
Weight
589g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691139340
SKU
V9780691139340
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About Michael Ann Holly
Michael Ann Holly is the Starr Director of the Research and Academic Program at the Clark Art Institute and teaches in the Graduate Program in the History of Art at Williams College. Her books include Past Looking: Historical Imagination and the Rhetoric of the Image and Panofsky and the Foundations of Art History.
Reviews for The Melancholy Art
Enchanting.
Holland Cotter, New York Times Nostalgic and plaintive, this title's examination of the work of art historians is an enjoyable literary exercise that will foster discussion among art historians and their students.
Library Journal To consider melancholy in art beyond the limits of despondency, loss, and grief is a refreshing way to induce a different space and ... Read more
Holland Cotter, New York Times Nostalgic and plaintive, this title's examination of the work of art historians is an enjoyable literary exercise that will foster discussion among art historians and their students.
Library Journal To consider melancholy in art beyond the limits of despondency, loss, and grief is a refreshing way to induce a different space and ... Read more