Persistence of Melancholia in Arts and Culture
Taylor & Francis

Persistence of Melancholia in Arts and Culture - Hardback

Edition: 1st Edition
Subjects: Art, The arts: general issues
ISBN13: 9781138604490
Published: 15 Jul 2019

Format - Hardback
By Andrea Bubenik

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Persistence of Melancholia in Arts and Culture - Hardback

Regular price A$227.20
Sale price A$227.20 Regular price A$284.00
Product description

This book explores the history and continuing relevance of melancholia as an amorphous but richly suggestive theme in literature, music, and visual culture, as well as philosophy and the history of ideas. Inspired by Albrecht Dürer’s engraving Melencolia I (1514)—the first visual representation of artistic melancholy—this volume brings together contributions by scholars from a variety of disciplines. Topics include: Melencolia I and its reception; how melancholia inhabits landscapes, soundscapes, figures and objects; melancholia in medical and psychological contexts; how melancholia both enables and troubles artistic creation; and Sigmund Freud’s essay "Mourning and Melancholia" (1917).

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