Interventions: The Author Replies

• Autores: Michael Ann Holly
• Localización: Art bulletin, ISSN 0004-3079, Vol. 89, Nº 1, 2007, págs. 40-44
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • A response to comments on the article “The Melancholy Art,” all of which are included in this issue. Many art historians no doubt feel that the trope of melancholy as as emblem of their discipline's unconscious is simply too capacious or restrictive to be useful. Melancholy, however, should not be understood in exclusively gloomy and sorrowful terms. Nor should it be excluded from the distinctively paradoxical capacity of language to make present what is absent, the very capacity that gives language both ephemeral and compromised “meaning.” Moreover, it is melancholy that enables art historians to engender a poetry of loss in their work.