Umění z temnot - Pokladnice všeho morbidního, chmurného a děsivého – Elizabeth S. (2024)

Melancholy, dread, and morbidity. From dreams and nightmares to questions of mortality, corruption, and destruction, to gods and monsters. This book disturbs, confronting us with fears, anxieties, and ghostly realities. Within it, we find more than 200 carefully selected works of art, by authors such as Pablo Picasso, Georgia O'Keeffe, Francisco de Goya, Hieronymus Bosch, Leonora Carrington, John Everett Millais, Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst, Vincent van Gogh, Barbara Hepworth, and Edvard Munch. ***** S. Elizabeth, the author of this visually rich book, explores the artworks through thoughtful, suggestive text. She continually asks how we relate to the dark sides, examining the connections between high sensitivity, creativity, anxieties, mental illnesses, and madness. She delves into mysterious and desolate landscapes that have lured solitary contemplation or dreaming for centuries. We learn how the depiction of ghosts and other supernatural beings has evolved. We can trace the influences of European Romanticism into the early twenty-first century, reflect on the aesthetics of the ugly or evil, and newly view artworks from the perspective offered by Georges Braque when he stated: 'Art…