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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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| 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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : "Happiness : a(rt) history" / Ronit Milano
- Constructing emotions and weaving meaning in Byzantine art / Mati Meyer
- The frescoes of Berzé-la-Ville : the beatitude of the Blessed Saint Hugh and the concept of happiness in the Middle Ages / Gil Fishhof
- Spiritual joy in words and images in the Franciscan Church of the Visitation at Ain Karim / Nurith Kenaan-Kedar
- Boys don't cry : images of love-melancholy in late Medieval art / Polina Shtemler
- Happiness as Puritan art object / Jason LaFountain
- Picturing the pursuit of happiness in the Veneto countryside : Giandomenico Tiepolo's paradoxical peasants in the Villa Valmarana, Vicenza / William L. Barcham
- Tituba, the white witch and the concept of Victorian happiness : American witches in 19th century visual culture / Ayelet Carmi
- Happiness vis-à-vis melancholy in art / Milly Heyd
- Composition/construction and the social whole / Esther Levinger
- The new shape of happiness : wellness in art and popular culture / Alma-Elisa Kittner.