The Melancholy Art

by Michael Ann Holly

Why the art historian's craft is a uniquely melancholy art

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 art, The Melancholy Art...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691139342
• ISBN13: 9780691139340
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"