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Author:

Pharabod-Ibata, Helene, author.

Title:

The challenge of the sublime : from Burke's philosophical enquiry to British Romantic art / Helene Ibata.

Publisher:

Manchester University Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xiv, 322 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Burke, Edmund--1729-1797--A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful
Sublime, The, in art.
Romanticism in art.
Art, British--18th century.
Das Erhabene
Kunst
Rezeption
Romantik
Gro©britannien

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-313) and index.

Summary:

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.

Series:

Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century studies

ISBN:

9781526117397
1526117398

OCLC:

(OCoLC)990854067

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)