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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London
UCL Press
2021, 2021
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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
- Includes bibliographical references and index