Representing Emotions: New Connections in the Histories of Art, Music and Medicine

by Hills,Helen

• ISBN13: 9780754630586
• ISBN10: 0754630587
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-04-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Representing Emotions juxtaposes artistic and musical representations of emotions with medical, philosophical and scientific texts in Western culture between the Renaissance and the twentieth century. Representing Emotions also explores the ways in which emotions have been variously conceived, configured, represented and harnessed in relation to broader discourses of control, excess and refinement. The essays explore the interstices between disciplines (e.g. music and medicine, history of art and philosophy), disrupt established frameworks within the histories of art, music and medicine and challenge traditional narrative accounts. Larger historical forces come into perspective, as chapters suggest how both artistic and scientific representations of the emotions have been implemented in political, social and religious struggles, at a variety of different levels.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures	7	(2)
Notes on Contributors	9	(3)
Acknowledgements	12	(3)
Part I: Introduction
1. Towards Histories of Emotions
Penelope Gouk and Helen Hills	15	(20)
2. Is There a Cultural History of the Emotions?
Peter Burke	35	(14)
3. Emotions into Words-Or Words into Emotions?
Graham Richards	49	(20)
Part II: Emotions and Religious Belief
4. Bodies of Self-Transcendence: The Spirit of Affect in Giotto and Piero
Michael Schwartz	69	(20)
5. Architecture and Affect: Leon Battista Alberti and Edification
Helen Hills	89	(20)
6. Spiritual Passion and the Betrayal of Painting in Georges de la Tour
Dalia Judovitz	109	(14)
7. Changing Emotions? The Decline of Original Sin on the Eve of the Enlightenment
Michael Heyd	123	(16)
Part III: Emotions and the Body
8. The Man of Passion: Emotion, Philosophy and Sexual Difference
Christine Battersby	139	(16)
9. A Woman Weeps: Hogarth's Sigismunda (1759) and the Aesthetics of Excess
Marcia Pointon	155	(18)
10. 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	173	(18)
Part IV: Emotions and Discipline
11. Music's Pathological and Therapeutic Effects on the Body Politic: Doctor John Gregory's Views
Penelope Gouk	191	(18)
12. The Undulating Self: The Rhythmic Conception of Music and the Emotions
Charles Brotman	209	(14)
13. Dangerous Liaisons: Science, Amusement and the Civilizing Process
Otniel E. Dror	223	(12)
Select Bibliography	235	(12)
Index	247