| A Field Guide to Melancholy Contributor(s): Bowring, Jacky (Author) |
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ISBN: 1843446235 ISBN-13: 9781843446231 Publisher: Oldcastle Books
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: May 2016 |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Social Psychology - Psychology | Emotions |
| Dewey: 152.4 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5" W x 7.7" L (0.50 lbs) 240 pages |
| Features: Price on Product |
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| Publisher Description: Melancholy is a critical part of what it is to be human, yet everything from Prozac to self-help psychology books seems intent on removing all signs of sadness from contemporary existence. A Field Guide to Melancholy surveys this ambivalent concept and takes a journey through the articulation of melancholy in a variety of languages, from the Russian toska of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin to kaiho--expressed in the dancing of the Finnish tango. This guide finds melancholy within the work of writers such as W. G. Sebald and Jean-Paul Sartre, the art of photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto and multi-media artist Gerhard Richter, the films of Andrei Tarkovsky and Patrick Keiller, the music of Erik Satie and Tom Waits, the architecture and landscapes of ruins, and the 21st century's predilection for memorials. |
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