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- Title
Visual Forms and the Therapeutic Medium of Melancholy.
- Authors
Carvalho, Cláudio Alexandre S.
- Abstract
Considering artworks' socio-political framework, we explore the therapeutic use of visual artworks to relieve a melancholic condition. The transformative effects of aesthetic artifacts are evident in Durer's work, intersecting physiological, religious, and political elements in a program for self-knowledge and redemption. We will see that what is proposed is not a simple emulation of the means of curatio verbi but the sketching of a specific semiosis, providing perception with an autonomous pathway for self-transformation.
- Subjects
MELANCHOLY in art; AESTHETICS; DURER, Albrecht, 1471-1528; SELF-knowledge in art; ART research
- Publication
Polish Journal of Aesthetics, 2022, Issue 66, p29
- ISSN
2544-8234
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.19205/66.22.3