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Happiness or its absence in art /
The concept of 'happiness' is central to most civilized cultures. This volume investigates the many ways in which Western art visualized the concept from the early Middle Ages to the present. Employing different methodological approaches, the essays gathered here situate the concept of hum...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle upon Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The concept of 'happiness' is central to most civilized cultures. This volume investigates the many ways in which Western art visualized the concept from the early Middle Ages to the present. Employing different methodological approaches, the essays gathered here situate the concept of human happiness within discourses on gender, religion, intellectual life, politics and 'New-Age' culture. Operating as a cultural agent, art communicated the idea of happiness as both a physical and spiritual condition by exploiting specific formulae of representation. This volume combines art history, cultural analyses and intellectual studies in order to explore the complexities of iconographic programs that represent various forms of happiness, or its explicit absence, and to expose the implications embedded in the artistic works in question. Through innovative readings, the ten authors presented in the book survey different artistic and/or cultural paradigms and offer new interpretations of happiness or of its absence. |
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| Notas: | Selected papers from an international symposium on the theme of 'Happiness in Art, ' held in March 2011 by The Department of Arts of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vi, 186 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781443868259 1443868256 132218013X 9781322180137 |