Representing emotions : new connections in the histories of art, music and medicine / edited by Penelope Gouk and Helen Hills.

Other author Gouk, Penelope, editor.
Other author Hills, Helen, editor.
Format Book
Publication InfoAldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2005.
Description254 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects

Contents Towards histories of emotions / Penelope Gouk and Helen Hills -- Is there a cultural history of the emotions? / Peter Burke -- Emotions into words: or words into emotions? / Graham Richards -- Bodies of self-transcendence: the spirit of affect in Giotto and Piero / Michael Schwartz -- Architecture and affect: Leon Battista Alberti and edification / Helen Hills -- Spiritual passion and the betrayal of painting in Georges de la Tour / Dalie Judovitz -- Changing emotions? The decline of original sin on the eve of the enlightenment / Michael Heyd -- The man of passion: emotion, philosophy and sexual difference / Christine Battersby -- A woman weeps: Hogarth's Sigismunda (1759) and the aesthetics of excess / Marcia Pointon -- Remuer l'âme or Plaire à l'oreille? Music, emotions and the mind-body problem in French writings of the later eighteenth century / Christopher Gärtner -- Music's pathological and therapeutic effects on the body politic: Doctor John Gregory's views / Penelope Gouk -- The undulating self: the rhythmic conception of music and the emotions / Charles Brotman -- Dangerous liaisons : science, amusement and the civilizing process / Otniel E. Dror.
Abstract Juxtaposing artistic and musical representations of the emotions with medical, philosophical and scientific texts in Western culture between the Renaissance and the twentieth century, the essays collected in this volume explore the ways in which emotions have been variously conceived, configured, represented and harnessed in relation to broader discourses of control, excess and refinement. Since the essays explore the interstices between disciplines (for example, music and medicine, history of art and philosophy) and thereby disrupt established frameworks within the histories of art, music and medicine, traditional narrative accounts are challenged. Here larger historical forces come into perspective, as these papers suggest how both artistic and scientific representations of the emotions have been put to use in political, social and religious struggles, at a variety of different levels.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 235-246) and index.
LCCN 2003064039
ISBN0754630587 (alk. paper)

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