The Demon of Melancholy: Genealogies, Modernities
April 24–25, 2008
John Hay Library
An exhibition from the collections of the John Hay and Rockefeller Library, curated by Pauline de Tholozany and Dominique Coulombe.
Melancholy has been a source of inspiration and contemplation for philosophers, aesthetes, writers, artists, and scientists. At the crossroad of the fields of philosophy, occultism, literary arts, visual arts, and medicine, the theme of melancholy lays a fertile ground for an abundance of literary and artistic creations.