Bubenik Andrea (ed.) The Persistence of Melancholia in Arts and Culture

Routledge, 2019. — 241 p. — (Routledge Research in Art History). — ISBN 2019005444, 9781138604490, 9780429468469.This book explores the history and continuing relevance of melancholia as an amorphous but richly suggestive theme in literature, music, and visual culture, as well as philosophy and the history of ideas. Inspired by Albrecht Dürer’s engraving Melencolia I (1514)―the first visual representation of artistic melancholy―this volume brings together contributions by scholars from a variety of disciplines. Topics include: Melencolia I and its reception; how melancholia inhabits landscapes, soundscapes, figures and objects; melancholia in medical and psychological contexts; how melancholia both enables and troubles artistic creation; and Sigmund Freud’s essay "Mourning and Melancholia" (1917).List of Colour Plates
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Introduction: The Persistence of Melancholia in Arts and Culture. Andrea Bubenik
Hearts on Fire: Renaissance Portraiture and Erotic Melancholy. Laurinda S. Dixon
Between the Angel and the Dog: Dürer’s Melancholy Community. Drew Daniel
Dürer, Music, and Melencolia I. Denis Collins
The Shape of Things to Come: Dürer’s Polyhedron. Andrea Bubenik
On Vanishing Land (2013): The Eerie, W. G. Sebald, and English Hauntology. Rex Butler
After the End: The Temporality of Melancholia. Amelia Barikin
The Melancholy Art. Michael Ann Holly
Temporal Turbulence: In Praise of Anachronism. Mieke Bal
Facing Melancholia: Racial Implications of the Disengaged Gaze. Sally Butler
The Melancholic Horizon in Australian Landscape Art. Allison Holland
Against a Melancholic Art History: The Afterlife of Images. Chari Larsson