Representing the Passions

Representing the Passions
Author: Richard Evan Meyer
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2003
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780892366767

Through an interlocking series of texts and images, this work explores how extreme sensations such as wonder, misery, ecstasy and rage have been portrayed at different moments in Western culture. Moving across multiple fields of creative endeavour and intellectual inquiry - from classical artefacts to Chicano art, political protest to operatic performance, Rene Descartes's writings on the soul to the Internet's digitised flesh - it reveals how the passions have elicited, eluded and transformed the act of representation.

A Passion for Antiquities

A Passion for Antiquities
Author: Marion True
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 370
Release: 1994-12-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0892362235

The collection of Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman of New York is one of the most important private collections of ancient Greek and Roman art in the United States and among the most important in the world. Composed of approximately three hundred objects from the Bronze Age to the Late Antique, it includes bronze statuettes, marble sculpture, vases, jewelry, lamps and candelabra, keys, weights, and silver bowls and utensils. The Fleischmans have a particular fascination with pieces associated with everyday life in antiquity, since these objects evoke a human connection to the past. They are also drawn to pieces that exemplify the human propensity to transform a functional object into a thing of beauty. Not only has their emotional response to an object’s aesthetic appeal or its historical significance guided them in their forty years of collecting, personal interests have been at work as well. The large number of pieces related to the theater or representing theatrical subjects reflects Barbara Fleischman’s lifelong love of that art. A Passion for Antiquities contains photographs and extensive catalogue entries on the objects included in the exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Eighteen contributors provide art historical and descriptive information about each piece. The objects not selected for the exhibition are detailed in a checklist that specifies their origins, dates, media, and sizes. This book is the first major reference on the entire collection, since most of the objects have never before been publicly shown. To facilitate finding specific objects or groups of objects, the book is organized first chronologically and then by medium. Bibliographic sources for each entry cite both publications where the specific work is discussed as well as references to related scholarship. Karol Wight provides a chronological overview of the collection, and Oliver Taplin relates selected pieces to the development of Greek theater. The exhibition of Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman’s collection and this catalogue allow us to enter into their minds and emotions so that, for a time, we can share their passion for antiquities.

Passions of the Soul

Passions of the Soul
Author: René Descartes
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Total Pages: 194
Release: 1989-12-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 162466198X

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Translator's Introduction Introduction by Genevieve Rodis-Lewis The Passions of the Soul: Preface PART I: About the Passions in General, and Incidentally about the Entire Nature of Man PART II: About the Number and Order of the Passions, and the Explanation of the Six Primitives PART III: About the Particular Passions Lexicon: Index to Lexicon Bibliography Index Index Locorum

Anatomy of the Passions

Anatomy of the Passions
Author: François Delaporte
Publisher:
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2008
Genre: Psychology
ISBN:

Through the pioneering work of Duchenne de Boulogne, Franois Delaporte provides a remarkable philosophical and historical examination of expressive physiology during the mid-19th century, and considers the science of emotion as a means of revealing inner life--thoughts, feelings--upon the surface of the face.

The Soft Underbelly of Reason

The Soft Underbelly of Reason
Author: Stephen Gaukroger
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2002-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1134698151

Each of the essays in this collection, written by the most respected academics in their fields, provides both an insightful and valuable understanding on the different views of the passions in the Seventeenth Century.

Romanticism and the Painful Pleasures of Modern Life

Romanticism and the Painful Pleasures of Modern Life
Author: Andrea K. Henderson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 14
Release: 2008-03-20
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0521884020

An exploration of the Romantic obsession with power, submission and masochism, through readings of Byron, Keats, Burney and others.

Works

Works
Author: John Ruskin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 574
Release: 1904
Genre:
ISBN:

Philosophy and the Passions

Philosophy and the Passions
Author: Michel Meyer
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2000
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0271020318

The subject of the passions has always haunted Western philosophy and, more often than not, aroused harsh judgments. For the passions represent a force of excess and lawlessness in humanity that produces troubling, confusing paradoxes.In this book, noted European philosopher Michel Meyer offers a wide-ranging exegesis, the first of its kind, that systematically retraces the history of philosophic conceptions of the passions in the work of such thinkers as Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Spinoza, Descartes, Hobbes, Rousseau, Kant, and Freud. The great ruptures that led to passion's condemnation as sin, and to its romantic exultation as the truth of existence, are meticulously registered and the logic governing them astutely explicated.Meyer thus provides new insight into an age-old dilemma: Does passion torture people because it blinds them, or, on the contrary, does it permit them to apprehend who and what we really are?