Ibata The challenge of the sublime

From Burke’s <i>Philosophical Enquiry</i> to British Romantic art
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-5261-1740-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, Band 1, 336 Seiten

Reihe: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies

This interdisciplinary study looks at the influence of Edmund Burke's theories of the sublime on British Romantic art, arguing that it is far more significant than previously imagined.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ibata, Hélène

Ibata, Helene

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 19. Jahrhundert Romantik (Kunstgeschichte)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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, Turner and creative endeavour
8 Against and beyond Burke: Blake’s ‘sublime Labours’
9 Turner: from sublime association to sublime energy
Conclusion
Index

Über Autor(innen)

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