Description
Book SynopsisChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing on Laocoön: Empathy, Motor Imagery, and Predictive Processing.- Chapter 3. Translations of Pain: Ferdinand Hodler's Cancer Paintings of Valentine Godé-Darel.- Chapter 4. Paint and Pain: Gustav Adolf Mossa's Psychological Self-Portrait, Misogynist Self-Empathy, and Bloody Decadent Creativity.- Chapter 5. Objective Non-Empathy in Late Nineteenth-Century France.- Chapter 6. Abstracting Empathy: Wassily Kandinsky and His Artistic Interpretations of Theories in Visual Perception.- Chapter 7. Engaging Feeling: The Subject of Landscape in the Twenty-First Century.- Chapter 8. Thinking Empathy in Biennials and Art History Again.- Chapter 9. The Empathic Space of Art: Video Games and Virtual Reality as Tools in Socially Engaged Art Practice.- Chapter 10. Empathy in Roman Commemorative Art. Chapter 11. Shethe great agitator: Käthe Kollwitz and the Limits of Empathetic Spectatorship in Weimar Germany.- Chapter 12. Empathic Engagements with Death and Loss in the Work of Diane Victor.- Chapter 13. Empathy Rather than Ageism: A Daughter's Portrayal of Her Elderly Holocaust Survivor Mother.- Chapter 14. The Empathic Resonances of Village of Women (2019): On Cinematic Expansion Through Retreat.- Chapter 15. Feeling Into and Feeling With: Art Practice and Empathic Attention.- Chapter 16. Art as Empathetic Connection: Ways to Heal the Brain and Soul from Trauma.- Chapter 17. Visual Art and Empathy: A Fusion of the Intellectual and Emotional.- Chapter 18. Exploring Empathic Engagements: Resources for Educators and Students.
