Arc of Feeling by Javier Moscoso


ISBN
9781789146936
Published
Binding
Hardcover
Dimensions
156 x 234mm

In Arc of Feeling Javier Moscoso investigates the pleasure of oscillation and explores the surprising history of the swing through its meanings and metaphors, noting echoes and coincidences in remote times and places, from the witch's broom to aerial yoga, and from the gallows to sexual mores. Taking in cultural history, science, art, anthropology and philosophy, Moscoso explores the presence and role of this artefact in the West, such as in the works of Watteau, Fragonard and Goya, as well as in Eastern traditions, including those from India, Korea, Thailand and China. Linked since ancient times with sex and death, used by gods and madmen and as an erotic and therapeutic instrument, the swing is revealed to be an essential but neglected object in the history of human experience.'A remarkable and wide-ranging work, tracing the history of the swing on a global basis, while embedding it in a larger history of the emotional significance of vertigo and balance. A striking combination of intellectual and popular-cultural history, with an unusually rich, imaginative range of sources.' – Peter N. Stearns, George Mason University'After reading this book you may never see a swing, hear music, or have sex the same way again. Brilliant, wide-ranging, and fiercely learned, Javier Moscoso’s new book, like its subject, jolts our mind from its fixed grooves and sets our nerves a-tingling.' – Barbara H. Rosenwein, Loyola University Chicago
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