Melancolía
By: textos: Ángel Octavio Álvarez Solís [and seven others]
Contributors: Museo Nacional de Arte (Mexico)
Edition: Primera edición.
Series: Museos y galerías; Museos y galerías
Publisher: Museo Nacional de Arte
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Ciudad de México
Language: spa
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9786076054635; 9788494603471
Subjects: Melancholy in art; Exhibitions; Art; Psychology; Art and society; History; Alienation (Philosophy)
Description: Critical texts on melancholy in art history, approached from different aspects, specialties and time periods. Divided into four nuclei and a selection of pieces from the exhibition "Melancolía", the book seeks to expand the context of the exhibition through essays from specialists, ranging from psychoanalysis to the history of art. Includes works by artists such as Leonora Carrington, Germán Gedovius, Manuel Ocaranza, Diego Rivera, Julio Ruelas, Rufino Tamayo y Cristóbal de Villalpando, amongst others.
Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the MUNAL in Mexico City, April 4-July 9, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-193).
Table of contents: title: Melancolía / Abraham Villavicencio Garcia; title: El paraíso perdido; title: El viso de lo oscuro / Marcela Martinelli Herrera; title: Elogio de la Melancolía / Ángel Octavio Alvarez Solís; title: La noche del alma; title: Los infortunios de Eros : Melancolía y duelo en psicoanálisis / Jaime Ruiz Noé; title: La sombra de la muerte; title: La melancolía en el mundo hispánico: Escrúpulo e ingenio ante la pérdida de la esperanza / Sara Gabriela Baz Sánchez; title: Romanticismo y Melancolía: Una versión para la intimidad / Mónica Lopez Velarde Estrada; title: Los hijos de Saturno; title: Pintar la Melancolía: Gentileschi, Piranesi, Munch y Chirico / Roger Bartra Muria; title: , Bibliografía; title: Lista calcográfica.