Pleasing horror: empathic response to suffering and pain in Antique sculpture
Three antique sculptures, the Hanging Marsyas, the Farnese Bull, and the Laocoön, display intense expressions of suffering and pain. Drawing on ancient sources and modern research on embodied simulation and mirror neurons, the article discusses the connection between motion and emotion and the scul...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Oslo Library
2023-12-01
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| Series: | Acta ad Archaeologiam et Artium Historiam Pertinentia |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.uio.no/acta/article/view/10488 |
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| Summary: | Three antique sculptures, the Hanging Marsyas, the Farnese Bull, and the Laocoön, display intense expressions of suffering and pain. Drawing on ancient sources and modern research on embodied simulation and mirror neurons, the article discusses the connection between motion and emotion and the sculptures’ impact on emotional reaction and empathic viewer response. Did these works evoke strong feelings, or did they merely incur a light thrill? A concept of interest is phrike (tremor, shivering), an emotion associated with automatic responses to sudden stimuli.
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| ISSN: | 0065-0900 2611-3686 |