The Melancholy Art - Essays in the Arts - Michael Ann Holly - Books - Princeton University Press - 9780691139340 - February 24, 2013
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The Melancholy Art - Essays in the Arts


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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 a


224 pages, 41 halftones.

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released February 24, 2013
ISBN13 9780691139340
Publishers Princeton University Press
Pages 224
Dimensions 161 × 244 × 18 mm   ·   592 g
Language English  

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