The Melancholy Art / / Michael Ann Holly.
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...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Edition: | Course Book |
Language: | English |
Series: | Essays in the Arts
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 41 halftones. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. The Melancholy Art
- 2. Viennese Ghosts
- 3. Stones of Solace
- 4. Patterns in the Shadows
- 5. Mourning and Method
- Postscript
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index