Abstract
Abstract : This dissertation is a study and interrogation of melancholy’s expression and reading through specific landscape artworks. Melancholy is an emotion which is attributed to a bittersweet emotional state which here identified as a reaction to a loss of objects and/or places – linked to the past through memory. This dissertation utilises and focusses on Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy (2001) to define melancholy as a mood of varying intermixing of emotions: fear, sorrow, calumny, joy and hope. This dissertation identifies these five emotions as the principle emotional states attributed to explaining melancholy. This Burtonian melancholy is related to a non- pathological reading of self-mortality in landscape artworks through aesthetic and phenomenological readings of the landscape. Self-mortality is related to my concept called the mortal moment which is a point in time where a viewer (a subject who is viewing the landscape) recognises, in the unconscious, a truth of the future without them and containing self-mortality...
M.Tech. (Fine Art)