Suffering Art Gladly [electronic resource] : The Paradox of Negative Emotion in Art /
Levinson, Jerrold.author.
Levinson, Jerrold,editor of compilation.
Destrée, Pierre.Tragic pleasures in Plato and Aristotle.
A collection of newly composed essays, some with a historical focus and some with a contemporary focus, which addresses the problem of explaining the appeal of artworks whose appreciation entails negative or difficult emotions on the appreciator's part - what has traditionally been known as "the paradox of tragedy".
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Historical perspectives. Tragic pleasures in Plato and Aristotle / Pierre Destrée -- The paradox of negative emotion in art in enlightenment aesthetics / Carole Talon-Hugon -- A lust of the mind: curiosity and aversion in 18th century British aesthetics / Carolyn Korsmeyer -- Mere suffering: Hume and the problem of tragedy / Christopher Williams -- The problem and promise of the sublime: lessons from Kant and Schopenhauer / Sandra Shapshay -- Contemporary perspectives. A simple solution to the paradox of negative emotion / Raf DeClercq -- Painful art and the limits of well-being / Aaron Smuts -- That obscure object of desire: pleasure in painful art / Jonathan Gilmore -- Playing with fire: art and the seductive power of pain / Iskra Fileva -- Poetic pains: how poetry hurts and heals / Anna Ribeiro -- Negative emotions and creativity / Derek Matravers -- Attention, negative valence, and tragic emotions / Cain Todd -- Watching the unwatchable: 'irreversible', 'empire', and the other paradox of negative emotions / David Davies.
A collection of newly composed essays, some with a historical focus and some with a contemporary focus, which addresses the problem of explaining the appeal of artworks whose appreciation entails negative or difficult emotions on the appreciator's part - what has traditionally been known as "the paradox of tragedy".
Aesthetics.
Arts.
Emotions.
Aesthetics.
Arts.
Emotion.