The Persistence of Melancholia in Arts and Culture

Andrea Bubenik is Senior Lecturer in Art History at The University of Queensland, Australia.

Introduction: The Persistence of Melancholia

[Andrea Bubenik]

Part I: Resonances of Melencolia I (1514)

1. Temporal Turbulence: In Praise of Anachronism

[Mieke Bal]

2. Between the Angel and the Dog: Dürer’s Melancholy Community

[Drew Daniel]

Part II: Objects of Melancholia

3. Musical Responses to Dürer’s Melencolia I

[Denis Collins]

4. The Shape of Things to Come: The Melancholy of Dürer’s Polyhedron

[Andrea Bubenik]

5. The Eyes, Brain and Heart of the Viewer: Love Melancholy & Renaissance Portraiture

[Laurinda Dixon]

Part III: Landscapes of Melancholia

6. The Melancholic Horizon in Australian Art

[Allison Holland]

7. Sebald’s ‘Under the Sign of Saturn’ and English Hauntology

[Rex Butler]

Part IV: Politics and Morals of Melancholia

8. Melancholia’s Mirror: Moral Conscience in Australian Art

[Sally Butler]

9. Against a Melancholic Art History: The Afterlife of Images

[Chari Larsson]

10. After the End: Melancholia and the Politics of Time

[Amelia Barikin]

Conclusion: Melancholia: Past, Present, Future?

[Michael Ann Holly]