Challenge of the Sublime - From Burkes Philosophical Enquiry to British Romantic ArtPevná vazba
Challenge of the Sublime - From Burkes Philosophical Enquiry to British Romantic ArtPevná vazba This book examines the links between the unprecedented visual inventiveness of the Romantic period in…
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Challenge of the Sublime - From Burkes Philosophical Enquiry to British Romantic ArtPevná vazba
This book examines the links between the unprecedented visual inventiveness of the Romantic period in Britain and eighteenth-century theories of the sublime. 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 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.