Representing Emotions: New Connections in the Histories of Art, Music, and Medicine - Gouk, Penelope; Hills, Helen (Aldershot Ashgate, 2005)
Juxtaposing artistic and musical representations of the emotions with medical, philosophical and scientific texts in Western culture between the Renaissance and the twentieth century, the essays collected in this volume explore the ways in which emotions have been variously conceived, configured, represented and harnessed in relation to broader discourses of control, excess and refinement. Since the essays explore the interstices between disciplines (e.g. music and medicine, history of art and philosophy) and thereby disrupt established frameworks within the histories of art, music and medicine, traditional narrative accounts are challenged. Here larger historical forces come into perspective, as these papers suggest how both artistic and scientific representations of the emotions have been put to use in political, social, and religious struggles, at a variety of different levels
Part I: Introduction -- Towards Histories of Emotions / Penelope Gouk and Helen Hills -- Is There a Cultural History of the Emotions? / Peter Burke -- Emotions into Words-Or Words into Emotions? / Graham Richards -- Part II: Emotions and Religious Belief -- Bodies of Self-Transcendence: the Spirit of Affect in Giotto and Piero / Michael Schwartz -- Architecture and Affect: Leon Battista Alberti and Edification / Helen Hills -- Spiritual Passion and the Betrayal of Painting in Georges de la Tour / Dalia Judovitz -- Changing Emotions? The Decline of Original Sin on the Eve of the Enlightenment / Michael Heyd -- Part III: Emotions and the Body -- The Man of Passion: Emotion, Philosophy and Sexual Difference / Christine Battersby -- A Woman Weeps: Hogarth's Sigismunda (1759) and the Aesthetics of Excess / Marcia Pointon -- 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 -- Part IV: Emotions and Discipline -- Music's Pathological and Therapeutic Effects on the Body Politic: Doctor John Gregory's Views / Penelope Gouk -- The Undulating Self: The Rhythmic Conception of Music and the Emotions / Charles Brotman -- Dangerous Liaisons: Science, Amusement and the Civilizing Process / Otniel E. Dror -- Select Bibliography -- Index
Includes a select bibliography and index
Keywords: Music history; Fine art; Medicine; Emotion; Cultural history; Religion; Architecture