Affective Art
A special issue of Arts (ISSN 2076-0752).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 February 2024) | Viewed by 21416
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
An affective work of art is one that moves our emotions in response to it. These emotions include awe, fear, devotion, anger, disgust, sexual arousal, guilt, shame, humility, fervor, compassion, and more. Affective artworks also reach outward to evoke an imaginative empathy of some kind in their individual viewers. Few artworks do not evoke a token emotional response, but another response is to move us with their beauty—a sheer aesthetic response. This Special Issue will explore how art evokes its response.
In his pioneering study of such pictures, The Power of Images (1989), David Freedberg considered the issue of responses to pictorial representations, with particular attention to iconoclasm and censorship—the preventive measures that have attempted, across the centuries, to suppress such affective responses of artworks. In connection with the specific era of the Reformation, iconoclasm has been studied by Koenraad Jonckheere (Antwerp Art after Iconoclasm, 2012), and I have studied the response to the Council of Trent in The Sacred Image (2011). Freedberg also devoted a chapter on erotic imagery, which is still understudied in European art, but also has an established history in many other cultures. Literary scholars have examined sentiment, and recently several art historians have begun to explore those eighteenth- and nineteenth-century images intended to evoke an empathetic feeling in the viewer, akin to the period concept of 'sensibility'. All these areas are open to further study, in both the western and worldwide traditions.
Prof. Dr. Marcia B. Hall
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- affective art
- emotions in art
- empathy in art
- sentiment in art
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