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254 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780271059358
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Publication date: 17 December 2013
Description
In The Dark Side of Genius, Laurinda Dixon examines "melancholia" as a philosophical, medical, and social phenomenon in early modern art. Once considered to have a physical and psychic disorder, the melancholic combined positive aspects of genius ...
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254 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780271059358
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Publication date: 17 December 2013
Description
In The Dark Side of Genius, Laurinda Dixon examines "melancholia" as a philosophical, medical, and social phenomenon in early modern art. Once considered to have a physical and psychic disorder, the melancholic combined positive aspects of genius ...