Screen LibraryThe challenge of the sublime : from Burke's philosophical enquiry to British Romantic art /
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 show...
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Manchester University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Manchester : |
| Publication Dates: | 2018. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century studies
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| 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 repr |
| Carrier Form: | xiv, 322 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-313) and index. |
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9781526117397 (hardback) : 1526117398 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | NX650 |
| CLC: | J156.109.4 |
| Call Number: | J156.109.4/P536 |
| Contents: | Introduction Part I: From the Enquiry to the Academy -- 1. The Philosophical Enquiry, theories of the sublime and the sister arts tradition -- 2. Presenting the unpresentable: the modernity of Burke's Enquiry -- 3. Reynolds, the great style and the Burkean sublime -- 4. The sublime contained: academic compromises -- Part II: Beyond the 'narrow limits of painting' -- 5. Immersive spectatorship at the panorama and the aesthetics of the sublime -- 6. Frames, edges and 'unlimitation' -- 7. 'Sublime dreams': ruin paintings and architectural fantasies -- Part III: Relocating the sublime: Blake, Tu |