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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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"This study offers insight into the plurality and complexity of memory's cultural scope through the lens of Cervantes, and specifically through his novel Don Quixote. The author explores the many spaces that memory created for itself in early modern Spain, particularly in the fields of philosophy, medicine, rhetoric, mnemotechnics, the visual arts, and pedagogy. More than a theme, memory is a system of understanding in Cervantes's world resulting from the major social, religious, and economic changes that epitomize Renaissance humanist culture and that concurrently will inform the transition to modernity. In Don Quixote, he draws on theories regarding memory that had been developed since classical antiquity and adapted to the specific circumstances of his own time: nostalgia for an earlier period as a means to confront the fears that come with a rapidly changing society; exploiting the two interior senses, imagination and memory, as a powerful tool to detach oneself from society's impositions and instead endorse the right to be forgotten; pedagogical theories that evolved as a response to the intellectual overload and the impositions of the imitatio; the role of memory in a society that continued to cling to the oral tradition; the use of influential mnemonic images as persuasive devices within highly visual cultural environments; and, finally, the immense power of memory in individual and collective identity formation and, paradoxically, memory's fragility and malleability when faced with social, religious, and cultural demands."--

Memory in literature. --- Memory --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese. --- Retention (Psychology) --- Intellect --- Psychology --- Thought and thinking --- Comprehension --- Executive functions (Neuropsychology) --- Mnemonics --- Perseveration (Psychology) --- Reproduction (Psychology) --- Memory as a theme in literature --- Social aspects --- History. --- Cervantine. --- Don Quixote. --- Miguel de Cervantes. --- Renaissance literature. --- Sancho. --- Spanish literature. --- art of memory. --- early modern Spain. --- early modern literature. --- memory. --- mnemonic. --- mnemotechnics. --- Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Don Quixote (Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de) --- Spain. --- Cervantes y Saavedra, Miguel de --- Cerbantes Saavedra, Miguel de, --- Cervantes de Saavedra, Miguel de, --- Cervantes, M., --- Cervantes, Michael a, --- Cervantes, Miguel de, --- Cervantes Saavedra, Michael a, --- Cervantes Saavedra, Michiel de, --- Cervantes Savedra, Miguel, --- De Cervantes, Miguel, --- De Cervantes, Miguel --- Cervantes, Michel --- Hsi-wan-ti-shih, --- Saavedra, Miguel de Cervantes, --- Sai-wan-tʻi-ssŭ, --- Savedra, Migelʹ Servantes, --- Savedra, Miguel Cervantes, --- Servantes, M., --- Servantes Saavedra, Migelʹ de, --- Servantes Saavedra, Miguėlʹ, --- Serṿantes Saṿaidrah, Miguʼel de, --- Servantes Savedra, Migelʹ, --- Servantesu, M., --- Sirfāntīs, --- Tservantes, Michaēl, --- Сервантес Сааведра, Мигель де, --- סערװאנטעס סאאװעדרא, מיגעל דע --- סערוואנטעס דע סאאוועדרא, מיגעל דע --- סרונתס סאוידרה, מיגואל די --- סרונטס סאאוידרא, מיגואל די, --- סרונטס סודרה, מיגל דה, --- סרונטס, מיגאל --- צערװאנטעס, מיגועל, --- ثربانتس سابدرا، ميجيل دي، --- سروانتس --- セルバンテス, --- 塞万提斯, --- De Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel, --- Ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de La Mancha (Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de) --- Quijote (Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de) --- Don Quijote de la Mancha (Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de) --- Don Quijote (Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de) --- Ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de) --- Don Quixote de la Mancha (Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de) --- Espagne --- Espainiako Erresuma --- España --- Espanha --- Espanja --- Espanya --- Estado Español --- Hispania --- Hiszpania --- Isupania --- Kingdom of Spain --- Regne d'Espanya --- Reiaume d'Espanha --- Reino de España --- Reino d'Espanya --- Reinu d'España --- Sefarad --- Sepharad --- Shpanie --- Shpanye --- Spanien --- Spanish State --- Supein --- Cervantes Cortinas, Miguel de, --- Cortinas, Miguel de Cervantes, --- De Cervantes Cortinas, Miguel, --- Sai-wan-t�i-ss�u, --- Savedra, Migel� Servantes, --- Servantes Saavedra, Migel� de, --- Servantes Saavedra, Migu�el�, --- Ser�vantes Sa�vaidrah, Migu�el de, --- Servantes Savedra, Migel�, --- Sirf�ant�is, --- Tservantes, Micha�el, --- Cervantes Saavedra, de, Miguel