Pictures and Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings (repost)
Pictures and Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings
Routledge | 2004-02-23 | ISBN: 0415970539 | 288 pages | PDF | 3,4 MB
Routledge | 2004-02-23 | ISBN: 0415970539 | 288 pages | PDF | 3,4 MB
Pictures and Tears is a strange and wonderful investigation into paintings and the emotions they evoke.
In past centuries, viewers were often moved by paintings. Fourth-century Greek painting depicted people in states of extreme grief, so that the viewer might respond in kind. Crying in front of paintings was commonplace in the Middle Ages. There were more tears in the eighteenth century, and then again in the age of Romanticism. Why have the last hundred years been so dry by comparison?