LEADER 03842nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910463163603321 005 20211029015242.0 010 $a1-299-05141-3 010 $a1-4008-4495-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400844951 035 $a(CKB)2670000000330207 035 $a(EBL)1102494 035 $a(OCoLC)845249075 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000822229 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11469499 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000822229 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10759552 035 $a(PQKB)10483119 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1102494 035 $a(OCoLC)827552202 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse43192 035 $a(DE-B1597)453924 035 $a(OCoLC)979910929 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400844951 035 $a(PPN)185528953 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1102494 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10644373 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL436391 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000330207 100 $a20120620d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe melancholy art$b[electronic resource] /$fMichael Ann Holly 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, New Jersey $cPrinceton University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (225 p.) 225 0 $aEssays in the arts 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-691-13934-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tAcknowledgments --$t1. The Melancholy Art --$t2. Viennese Ghosts --$t3. Stones of Solace --$t4. Patterns in the Shadows --$t5. Mourning and Method --$tPostscript --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aMelancholy is not only about sadness, despair, and loss. As Renaissance artists and philosophers acknowledged long ago, it can engender a certain kind of creativity born from a deep awareness of the mutability of life and the inevitable cycle of birth and death. Drawing on psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the intellectual history of the history of art, The Melancholy Art explores the unique connections between melancholy and the art historian's craft. Though the objects art historians study are materially present in our world, the worlds from which they come are forever lost to time. In this eloquent and inspiring book, Michael Ann Holly traces how this disjunction courses through the history of art and shows how it can give rise to melancholic sentiments in historians who write about art. She confronts pivotal and vexing questions in her discipline: Why do art historians write in the first place? What kinds of psychic exchanges occur between art objects and those who write about them? What institutional and personal needs does art history serve? What is lost in historical writing about art? The Melancholy Art looks at how melancholy suffuses the work of some of the twentieth century's most powerful and poetic writers on the history of art, including Alois Riegl, Franz Wickhoff, Adrian Stokes, Michael Baxandall, Meyer Schapiro, and Jacques Derrida. A disarmingly personal meditation by one of our most distinguished art historians, this book explains why to write about art is to share in a kind of intertwined pleasure and loss that is the very essence of melancholy. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions. 410 0$aEssays in the Arts 606 $aArt$xHistoriography 606 $aMelancholy 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aArt$xHistoriography. 615 0$aMelancholy. 676 $a707.2/2 700 $aHolly$b Michael Ann$0516984 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463163603321 996 $aThe melancholy art$92482260 997 $aUNINA