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The 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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Holly, Michael Ann (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The melancholy art
  • Viennese ghosts
  • Stones of solace
  • Patterns in the shadows
  • Mourning and method.