Representing the passions : histories, bodies, visions / edited by Richard Meyer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Meyer, Richard (Richard Evan)

Phi Beta Kappa Library Trust Fund.

Series:

Issues & debates

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emotions in art.

Arts.

Physical Description:

ix, 300 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles, CA : Getty Research Institute, [2003]

Summary:

Ungovernable urges, overwhelming impulses, commanding desires -- in their immediacy and intensity, the passions challenge our attempts to capture them in words and images. From Rene Descartes's analysis of the human soul to the Internet's digitized flesh, Representing the Passions explores the interplay between the experience of extravagant emotions and their expression in Western art, music, and writing.

Contents:

Introduction: The Problem of the Passions / Richard Meyer 1

Histories

Cogito Embodied: Force and Counterforce in Rene Descartes's Les passions de l'ame / David Summers 13

Music and the Order of the Passions / Martha Feldman 37

Masses, Mind, Matter: Political Passions and Collective Violence in Post-Imperial Austria / Stefan Jonsson 69

Observations on the Natural History of the Web / Horst Bredekamp 103

Bill Viola, Passions Series

Images and Production Notes

Bodies

Unspeakable Passions: The Civil and Savage Lessons of Early Modern Animal Representation / Elizabeth Liebman 137

The Afterlife of Sarah Siddons; or, The Archives of Performance / David Roman 163

Pulling Ribbons from Mouths: Roland Barthes's Umbilical Referent / Carol Mavor 175

Anne and Patrick Poirier, Perverse Passions

Perversity Douleur Caresses Desire Traces Anonyme Violation Obscur

Visions

Pleasure and Misery: Catholic Sources of Paul Gauguin's and Pablo Picasso's Abstraction / Debora Silverman 217

Collecting against Forgetting: East of the River: Chicano Art Collectors Anonymous / Teresa McKenna 249

A Passion for the Dead: Ancient Objects and Everyday Life / Page du Bois 270.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Phi Beta Kappa Library Trust Fund.

ISBN:

0892366761

OCLC:

50072406