April 14 – May 16, 2008
Lownes Room, John Hay Library
20 Prospect Street
Providence, Rhode Island 02912
The exhibit runs from April 14 to May 16, 2008 and is open to the public during normal library opening hours: Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sundays 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
From antiquity to modern times, from the confinement of enclosed spaces to open-ended journeys of displacement, as part of an individual or collective experience, Melancholy has been a source of inspiration and contemplation for philosophers, aesthetes, writers, artists, and scientists.
This exhibition presents works from the collections of the John Hay Library and Rockefeller Library and is designed to accompany the Conference “The Demon of Melancholy: Geneaologies, Modernities” which will take place at Brown University on April 24th and 25th, 2008.
For more information please contact Hay@brown.edu or visit http://www.brown.edu/Departments/French/melancholy.html