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The Melancholy Art - Essays in the Arts Michael Ann Holly
The Melancholy Art - Essays in the Arts
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, 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 |