On Boredom : Essays in art and writing

On Boredom : Essays in art and writing /

What do we mean when we say that we are bored? Or when we find a subject boring? Contributors to On Boredom: Essays in art and writing, which include artists, art historians, psychoanalysts and a novelist, examine boredom in its manifold and uncertain reality. Each part of the book takes up a crucia...

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Other Authors: Holmboe, Rye Dag (Editor), Morris, Susan (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : UCL Press, 2021.
Subjects:
Art.
Literature.
Boredom.
Emotions in art.
Literature
Boredom
Online Access:Full text (Open Access)
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: On Boredom
  • 1 Where is the Rule?
  • 2 Prayer and Other Lyrics
  • 3 Twenty Years of Boredom
  • 4 There was Silence in Heaven about the Space of Half an Hour
  • 5 Extract from Satin Island (2015)
  • 6 Creative boredom and Thomas Demand
  • 7 Professionally Boring: The Psychoanalyst's Tragedy
  • 8 Warhol's Indifference
  • 9 Yawns of Boredom
  • 10 The Long and the Short of it: Boredom after the End of the Great Boredom
  • Index
  • Back Cover

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