Happiness or its absence in art / edited by Ronit Milano and William L. Barcham.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Milano, Ronit, editor.

Barcham, William L., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Happiness in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The concept of 'happiness' is central to most civilized cultures. This volume investigates the many ways in which Western art has visualized the concept from the early Middle Ages to the present. Employing different methodological approaches, the essays gathered here situate the concept of human happiness within discourses on gender, religion, intellectual life, politics and 'New-Age' culture. Operating as a cultural agent, art communicates the idea of happiness as both a physical and spiritual condition by exploiting specific formulae of representation.This volume combines art history, cultur

Contents:

CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; CONSTRUCTING EMOTIONS AND WEAVING MEANING IN BYZANTINE ART; THE FRESCOES OF BERZÉ-LA-VILLE; SPIRITUAL JOY IN WORDS AND IMAGES IN THE FRANCISCAN CHURCH OF THE VISITATION AT AIN KARIM; BOYS DON'T CRY; HAPPINESS AS PURITAN ART OBJECT; PICTURING THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS IN THE VENETO COUNTRYSIDE; TITUBA, THE WHITE WITCH AND THE CONCEPT OF VICTORIAN HAPPINESS; HAPPINESS VIS-À-VISMELANCHOLY IN ART; COMPOSITION/CONSTRUCTION AND THE SOCIAL WHOLE; THE NEW SHAPE OF HAPPINESS; CONTRIBUTORS

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 10, 2014).

ISBN:

1-4438-6825-6

OCLC:

892799102