History, Practice and Pedagogy: Empathic Engagements in the Visual Arts

Acknowledgements
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction
Part I: Evocation and Embodiment
	Chapter 2: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing on Laocoön: Empathy, Motor Imagery, and Predictive Processing
		Introduction: Empathy and Imagination in Aesthetic Response
		The Limits of Painting, Sculpture, and Poetry
		Action and Temporality
		The Brain-Body System of Empathic Response
		Motor Imagery
		Predictive Coding
		Conclusion
	Chapter 3: Translations of Pain: Ferdinand Hodler’s Cancer Paintings of Valentine Godé-Darel
		Between Naturalism and Abstraction
		Empathy and the Modernist Canon
		Feeling into Godé-Darel
		The Medium Is the Message
	Chapter 4: Paint and Pain: Gustave-Adolphe Mossa’s Psychological Self-Portrait, Misogynist Self-Empathy, and Bloody Decadent Creativity
		Murdering the Mona Lisa
		Painting in Blood
		A Work of Flesh and Blood
		Confusion of Object and Subject
		Deficient Bodies and Narcissist 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
Part II: Environment
	Chapter 7: Engaging Feeling: The Subject of Landscape in the Twenty-First Century
		The Problems of Landscape
		Expanded Subjectivities
		Penitential Landscapes
		Material Considerations
		Feeling Landscape
	Chapter 8: Thinking Empathy in Biennials and Art History Again
		Lumbung in documenta 15 (2022)
		Trans-Sensory Experiences in the 17th Istanbul Biennial
		Why Does Einfühlung Matter Today?
	Chapter 9: The Empathic Space of Art: Video Games and Virtual Reality as Tools in Socially Engaged Art Practice
		Frontiers: You Have Reached Fortress Europe (by Gold Extra)
		“Serious Games” at the Intersection of Art, Entertainment, and Politics
		A Refugee’s Journey Turned into a Video Game
		Apnea (by Vanessa Vozzo)
		In the Skin of a Refugee: The Refugee Experience and Virtual Reality
Part III: Equity
	Chapter 10: Empathy in Roman Commemorative Art
		Introduction
		Empathy and Art
		Roman Monuments in Gaul
		Captives on Roman Monuments
		Displaying Emotion in Ancient Art and Spectacle
	Chapter 11: “She—the 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
		Introduction
		Empathy
		Smoke
		Ash
		Conclusion
	Chapter 13: Empathy Rather Than Ageism: A Daughter’s Portrayal of Her Elderly Holocaust Survivor Mother
		Narrative Empathy
		Old Women in Art: Between Ageism and Empathy
		Holocaust Art and Old Age Linked by Empathy
		Formulating Mother-Daughter Relationship Based on Empathy
		Three Sites of Empathy in Nemesh’s Works
			Portraits of Katia
			Domestic Scenes
			Mother-Daughter Relationship
	Chapter 14: The Empathic Resonances of Village of Women (2019): On Cinematic Expansion Through Retreat
		The Impassioned Pamphleteer and the Thrill of Virtue
		Situatedness Matters: Exilic Filmmaking and the Return Home
		Women (Sans Men) and Their Commoning
		By Way of a Conclusion: Empathic Resonances and Feeling Felt
Part IV: Enactment
	Chapter 15: Feeling Into and Feeling With: Art Practice and Empathic Attention
		Feel With/Feel Into
		The Photograph as Threshold
		With Enfolds Into
		With Pathema, With Pathos
		With the Object
		The Object and the Body
		Attention and Orientation
		Pinning and Provisionality
		Simulation and Perception
	Chapter 16: Art as Empathetic Connection: Ways to Heal the Brain and Soul from Trauma
		What’s Happening in the World: Trauma
		The Way We Get Through It: Art as Connection, Empathy as Art
		Art as Healing
		Art as Empathy
	Chapter 17: Visual Art and Empathy: A Fusion of the Intellectual and the Emotional
		Current Challenges in Higher Education
		Empathy and Its Benefits
		Higher Education, Emotion, and Learning
		Empathy, Art, and Museums
		Higher Education Audiences, Museums, and Empathy
Part V: Resources
	Chapter 18: Exploring Empathic Engagements: Resources for Educators and Students
		Reflection Questions and Discussion Prompts
			General and Introduction
			Evocation and Embodiment
			Environment
			Equity
			Enactment
		Looking Close and Slow: A Sample Engagement with Käthe Kollwitz and Gustav Adolf Mossa
		Alternative Essay Groupings
			Gender
			Place
			Artistic Practice
			Cognition
			Social Justice
		Further Reading
			Readings
			Web Resources
Bibliography
Index