Melancholy art, the
Auteur :
Holly, Michael Ann
Éditeur :
Princeton University Press
ISBN :
9780691139340
Date de publication :
24 févr. 2013
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
567 g
Format :
B315
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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 a