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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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An inside look at young Iranians navigating poverty and stigma in a time of crisis In Coming of Age in Iran, Manata Hashemi takes readers inside the lives of Iranian youth. Drawing on first-hand accounts, Hashemi shows how the young Iranian men and women known as the "burnt generation"--those between the ages of 15 and 29, who came of age after Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution--face their future prospects.With a compassionate eye, Hashemi paints a nuanced portrait of their day-to-day struggles in Iran. Hashemi spent months with these youth, observing them at bazaars, hair salons, parks, and mosques, tutoring them in English and sharing meals in their family homes. Many young Iranian men and women are jobless, living with their parents, and delaying marriage, ultimately failing to meet what they consider the traditional benchmarks of adulthood. Hashemi follows their stories, one by one, as they try to climb up the proverbial ladder of success.Coming of Age in Iran sheds light on the inner lives of a new generation of Iranian youth as they struggle in the face of ongoing economic crisis.

Youth. --- Vertical Exchange Networks. --- The Gaze. --- Tehran. --- Tastemaking. --- Symbolic Boundaries. --- Street Smarts. --- Status. --- Socioeconomic Mobility. --- Social Ties. --- Social Mobility. --- Social Media. --- Social Capital. --- Sexual Cleanliness. --- Self Sufficiency. --- Satellite Television. --- Sari. --- Ritual Action. --- Risk-Taking. --- Resistance. --- Pre-Existing Resources. --- Morality. --- Moral Self. --- Moral Purity. --- Moral Pollution. --- Moral Capital. --- Masculinity. --- Kelās. --- Informal Work. --- Accentuated Conformism;Agency;Appearances;Aspirations;Bodily Capital;Cultural Mimicry;Cultural Production;Culture;Dignity;Drug Use;Embourgeoisement;Face;Face Game;Face Rules;Family Support;Feminization of Work;Hard Work;Hegemony;Horizontal Exchange Networks;Incremental Mobility;Inequality. --- Accentuated Conformism. --- Agency. --- Appearances. --- Aspirations. --- Bodily Capital. --- Cultural Mimicry. --- Cultural Production. --- Culture. --- Dignity. --- Drug Use. --- Embourgeoisement. --- Face Game. --- Face Rules. --- Face. --- Family Support. --- Feminization of Work. --- Hard Work. --- Hegemony. --- Horizontal Exchange Networks. --- Incremental Mobility. --- Inequality. --- Kelās. --- Accentuated Conformism;Agency;Appearances;Aspirations;Bodily Capital;Cultural Mimicry;Cultural Production;Culture;Dignity;Drug Use;Embourgeoisement;Face;Face Game;Face Rules;Family Support;Feminization of Work;Hard Work;Hegemony;Horizontal Exchange Networks;Incremental Mobility;Equality. --- Social mobility. --- Social media. --- Self-reliant living. --- Saris. --- Ethics. --- Kelas.