Challenge of the Sublime

From Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry to British Romantic Art

AvHelene Ibata

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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This book examines the links between the unprecedented visual inventiveness of the Romantic period in Britain and eighteenth-century theories of the sublime. Edmund Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757), in particular, is shown to have directly or indirectly challenged visual artists to explore not just new themes, but also new compositional strategies and visual media such as panoramas and book illustrations, by arguing that the sublime was beyond the reach of painting. More significantly, it began to call into question mimetic representational models, causing artists to reflect about the presentation of the unpresentable and drawing attention to the process of artistic production itself, rather than the finished artwork.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-03-16
Mått:138 x 216 x 18 mm
Vikt:399 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies
Antal sidor:336
Förlag:Manchester University Press
ISBN:9781526117410

Utforska kategorier

Konsthistoria inom Kultur
Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion

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Hélène Ibata is Professor of English and Visual Studies at the University of Strasbourg

Recensioner i media

'Most studies of the sublime simply bypass a lot of criticism because reviewing the history of the criticism of nineteenth-century aesthetics is burdensome. Ibata, instead, puts her work on Burke in the context of as much previous work as is practically feasible and puts Burke’s treatise in relation to contemporary accounts of the sublime in a way that is rarely, if ever, accomplished…she helps the reader to understand what is unique in Burke and which other writers on the sublime influenced each aspect of his ideas.'European Romantic Review'Conducted with rigor and erudition, this study is supported by an abundant iconography (5 color plates and 33 illustrations in white and black inserted in the text) presented in an elegant volume.'XVII-XVIII

Innehållsförteckning

IntroductionPart I: From the Enquiry to the Academy1 The Philosophical Enquiry, theories of the sublime and the sister arts tradition2 Presenting the unpresentable: the modernity of Burke’s Enquiry3 Reynolds, the great style and the Burkean sublime4 The sublime contained: academic compromisesPart II: Beyond the ‘narrow limits of painting’5 Immersive spectatorship at the panorama and the aesthetics of the sublime6 Frames, edges and ‘unlimitation’7 ‘Sublime dreams’: ruin paintings and architectural fantasiesPart III: Relocating the sublime: Blake, Turner and creative endeavour8 Against and beyond Burke: Blake’s ‘sublime Labours’9 Turner: from sublime association to sublime energyConclusionIndex