Resumen de Response: Epithalamium
A response to Michael Ann Holly's paper “The Melancholic Art,” which is published in this issue. Holly's general thesis is that, for art historians, the tropes of mourning and melancholy are intimately connected to the status and presence of the art object. Implicitly, however, Holly suggests that the essential stake in her endeavor to present melancholy as the disciplinary soul of art history is, effectively, the art historian's ability to imagine an object or objectivity that is not methodologically assured. Moreover, Holly implicitly suggests that mourning and melancholy arise in art history within a broader context of related tropes, including those of inheritance and remarriage.
