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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 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.

Art --- History as a science --- Affective and dynamic functions --- Melancholy. --- Mélancolie --- Historiography. --- Historiographie --- Melancholy --- Historiography --- Art - Historiography. --- Visual Arts --- Art, Architecture & Applied Arts --- Visual Arts - General --- Mélancolie --- Dejection --- Emotions --- Depression, Mental --- Sadness --- Art - Historiography --- Aby Warburg. --- Aestheticism. --- Aesthetics. --- Allegory. --- Alois Riegl. --- Anachronism. --- Analytic confidence. --- Ancient art. --- Aphorism. --- Art criticism. --- Art history. --- Arthur Schopenhauer. --- Artistic merit. --- Ben Nicholson. --- Bernard Berenson. --- Bernard Bosanquet (philosopher). --- Beyond the Pleasure Principle. --- Caspar David Friedrich. --- Christopher Bollas. --- Classicism. --- Connoisseur. --- Consciousness. --- Contemporary art. --- Criticism. --- Critique of Judgment. --- Death drive. --- Deconstruction. --- Ernst Gombrich. --- Erwin Panofsky. --- Explanation. --- Fra Angelico. --- Friedrich Nietzsche. --- Fritz Saxl. --- Garry Wills. --- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. --- George Steiner. --- Giovanni Morelli. --- Hannah Arendt. --- Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht. --- Hayden White. --- Iconography. --- Illusionism (art). --- Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. --- Jacques Derrida. --- Jacques Lacan. --- Jacques-Alain Miller. --- James Strachey. --- Jan van Eyck. --- Johann Joachim Winckelmann. --- Josef Strzygowski. --- Julia Kristeva. --- Linguistic turn. --- Literary theory. --- Marion Milner. --- Marsilio Ficino. --- Martin Heidegger. --- Maurice Blanchot. --- Melanie Klein. --- Metahistory. --- Metonymy. --- Meyer Schapiro. --- Michael Baxandall. --- Minima Moralia. --- Modernism. --- Modernity. --- Museum. --- Oceanic feeling. --- Oskar Kokoschka. --- Overpainting. --- Paul de Man. --- Petrarch. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophy. --- Positivism. --- Post-structuralism. --- Postmodernism. --- Psychoanalysis. --- Putto. --- Rainer Maria Rilke. --- Renaissance art. --- Rhetoric. --- Richard Wollheim. --- Romanticism. --- Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata (van Eyck). --- Sandro Botticelli. --- Simone Martini. --- Svetlana Alpers. --- The Art of Memory. --- The Gaze of Orpheus. --- The Origin of German Tragic Drama. --- The Philosopher. --- Theses on the Philosophy of History. --- Thought. --- Tintoretto. --- Unthought known. --- W. G. Sebald. --- Walter Benjamin. --- Walter Pater. --- Work of art. --- Writing.

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In this visually stunning and much anticipated book, acclaimed art historian Joseph Leo Koerner casts the art of Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel in a completely new light, revealing how the painting of everyday life was born from what seems its opposite: depictions of a foe hellbent on destroying us. Probing deeply the visual cunning of these Renaissance masters, Koerner uncovers art history's unexplored underside: the visual image as enemy. An absorbing study of the dark paradoxes of human creativity, Bosch and Bruegel is also a timely account of how hatred can be converted into tolerance through art. Koerner guides readers through all the major paintings, drawings, and prints of these two towering artists, including Bosch's elusive Garden of Earthly Delights, which forms the mesmerizing center of the historical tour de force. Elegantly written and abundantly illustrated the book is based on Koerner's A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, a series given annually at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. ; Inside jacket flap.

Peinture de genre hollandaise --- Genre painting, Dutch --- Bruegel, Pieter, --- Bosch, Hieronymus, --- Bruegel, Pieter --- Bosch, Hieronymus --- Bruegel, Pieter, --- Bosch, Hieronymus, --- Bruegel, Pieter, --- Bosch, Hieronymus, --- Bruegel, Pieter, --- Bosch, Hieronymus, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Critique et interpretation. --- Critique et interpretation. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Achievement (heraldry). --- Allegory. --- Allusion. --- Altarpiece. --- Ambiguity. --- Anathema. --- Anime. --- Art history. --- Beauty. --- Beret. --- Bruegel (institution). --- Caricature. --- Chapter 2. --- Chiaroscuro. --- Christian martyrs. --- Class action. --- Class conflict. --- Conflagration. --- Crime against nature. --- Cristofano Allori. --- Description. --- Early Netherlandish painting. --- Emblem. --- Embroidery. --- Engraving. --- Everyday life. --- Futures studies. --- Genre painting. --- Georgius Agricola. --- Gluttony. --- Hatred. --- Hieronymus Bosch. --- High Art. --- Holy Roman Empire. --- Humility. --- Hyle. --- James Strachey. --- Jan van Eyck. --- Jewish hat. --- Judeo-Christian. --- Karel van Mander. --- Library. --- Literature. --- Mass of Saint Gregory. --- Michael Wolgemut. --- Museo del Prado. --- Museo di Capodimonte. --- Mussel. --- Natural and legal rights. --- Nobility. --- Picture plane. --- Pieter Bruegel the Elder. --- Pity. --- Pogrom. --- Poiesis. --- Proverb. --- Royal Library of Belgium. --- Second Letter (Plato). --- Self-control. --- Self-portrait. --- Self-preservation. --- Spontaneous generation. --- Symptom. --- Tavern. --- The Hay Wain. --- The Land of Cockaigne (Bruegel). --- The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things. --- Wallraf-Richartz Museum. --- Woodcut. --- Writing.