{"id":1114,"date":"2023-12-10T21:15:07","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T21:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artistry\/?p=1114"},"modified":"2023-12-10T21:15:07","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T21:15:07","slug":"the-meaning-of-melancholy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artistry\/2023\/12\/10\/the-meaning-of-melancholy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Meaning of Melancholy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"sizing-normal\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4842a274-94f0-46f0-92bd-00432541a087_800x1596.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"541\" height=\"1079.295\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/4842a274-94f0-46f0-92bd-00432541a087_800x1596.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1596,&quot;width&quot;:800,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:541,&quot;bytes&quot;:218073,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null}\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hans Maes is senior lecturer in history and philosophy of art at the University of Kent. He has authored and edited a number of books including: Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Before Midnight: A Philosophical Exploration (Routledge 2021); Portraits and Philosophy (Routledge, 2020); Conversations on Art and Aesthetics (Oxford University Press, 2017); Pornographic Art and The Aesthetics of Pornography (Palgrave MacMillan, 2013); and Art &amp; Pornography (Oxford University Press, 2012).<\/p>\n<p>In<a href=\"https:\/\/onthearts.com\/p\/the-meaning-of-melancholy\"> this interview<\/a>\u00a0for On the Arts, he discusses the history and meaning of melancholy, a rich but often under-appreciated concept. You can read Maes\u2019 full paper,<a href=\"https:\/\/contempaesthetics.org\/2023\/06\/20\/aesthetic-melancholy\/\"> Aesthetic Melancholy<\/a> (2023), at Contemporary Aesthetics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Hans Maes is senior lecturer in history and philosophy of art at the University of Kent. He has authored and edited a number of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artistry\/2023\/12\/10\/the-meaning-of-melancholy\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36744,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9111],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36744"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1115,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions\/1115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}