Sublime Worlds

Author : Leslie Umberger,John Michael Kohler Arts Center
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 1568987285

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Sublime Spaces and Visionary Worlds by Leslie Umberger,John Michael Kohler Arts Center Pdf

The need to personalize our surroundings is a defining human characteristic. For some this need becomes a compulsion to transform their personal surroundings into works of art. The John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, has undertaken the mission to preserve these environments, which are presented for the first time in Sublime Spaces and Visionary Worlds. This colorful and inspiring book features the work of twenty-two vernacular artists whose locales, personal histories, and reasons for art-making vary widely but who all share a powerful connection to the home as art. Featured projects range from art environments that remain intact, such as Simon Rodia's Watts Towers in California, tosites lost over the years such as Emery Blagdon's six hundred elaborate "Healing Machines," made of copper, aluminum, tinfoil, magnets, ribbons, farm-machinery parts, painted light bulbs, beads, coffee-can lids, and more. Sublime Spaces and Visionary Worlds is the first book to explore these spectacularly offbeat spaces in detail.From "Original Rhinestone Cowboy" Loy Bowlin's wall-to-wall glitter-and-foil living room to the concrete bestiary of "witch of Fox Point" Mary Nohl, each artist and project is described in detail through a wealth of visuals and text. Sublime Spaces and Visionary Worlds reminds us that our decorative choices tell the world not just what we like but who we are.

Author : Emma Gilby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351547482

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Sublime Worlds by Emma Gilby Pdf

Some of the language we come across, in reading other peoples' works or listening to others speak, moves us profoundly. It requires a response from us; it occupies and involves us. Writers, always readers and listeners as well, are fascinated by this phenomenon, which became the subject of the classical treatise On the Sublime , traditionally attributed to Longinus. Emma Gilby looks at this compelling and complex text in relation to the work of three major seventeenth-century authors: Pierre Corneille, Blaise Pascal and Nicolas Boileau. She offers, in each case, intimate critical readings which spin out into broad interrogations about knowledge and experience in early modern French literature.

Author : Stijn Bussels,Bram Van Oostveldt
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781003803492

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The Sublime in the Visual Culture of the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic by Stijn Bussels,Bram Van Oostveldt Pdf

Contrary to what Kant believed about the Dutch (and their visual culture) as “being of an orderly and diligent position” and thus having no feeling for the sublime, this book argues that the sublime played an important role in seventeenth-century Dutch visual culture. By looking at different visualizations of exceptional heights, divine presence, political grandeur, extreme violence, and extraordinary artifacts, the authors demonstrate how viewers were confronted with the sublime, which evoked in them a combination of contrasting feelings of awe and fear, attraction and repulsion. In studying seventeenth-century Dutch visual culture through the lens of notions of the sublime, we can move beyond the traditional and still widespread views on Dutch art as the ultimate representation of everyday life and the expression of a prosperous society in terms of calmness, neatness, and order. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual culture, architectural history, and cultural history.

Author : Robert Doran
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107101531

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The Theory of the Sublime from Longinus to Kant by Robert Doran Pdf

The first in-depth treatment of the major theories of the sublime from Longinus to Kant.

Author : Thomas Matthew Vozar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198875963

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Milton, Longinus, and the Sublime in the Seventeenth Century by Thomas Matthew Vozar Pdf

No author in the English canon seems more deserving of the epithet sublime than John Milton. Yet Milton's sublimity has long been dismissed as an invention of eighteenth-century criticism. The poet himself, the story goes, could hardly have had any notion of the sublime, a concept that only took shape in the decades after his death with the advent of philosophical aesthetics. Such a narrative, however, fails to account for the fact that Milton is one of the first writers in English to refer to Longinus, the author traditionally associated with the Ancient Greek treatise On the Sublime. This book argues that Milton did have an idea of the sublime—one that came to him from Longinus but also from a larger classical tradition that offered a pre-aesthetic predecessor to the aesthetic concept of the sublime. Thomas Vozar shows that Longinus was better known in early modern England than has been previously appreciated; that various notions of sublimity beyond that of Longinus would have been available to Milton and his contemporaries; and that such notions of the sublime were integral to Milton's rhetorical, scientific, and theological imagination. Additional material relating to the early modern reception of Longinus is provided in the appendices, which contain the first bibliographical study of copies of Longinus in English private libraries to 1674 and an edition of a newly discovered seventeenth-century English translation of Longinus. Far from being anachronistic, Milton's "abstracted sublimities" touch on almost every aspect of his thought, from rhetoric to politics, from science to theology. Making substantive contributions to literary scholarship, classical reception studies, and the history of ideas, Milton, Longinus, and the Sublime in the Seventeenth Century returns the sublime to its proper place at the forefront of Milton criticism, re-evaluates the diffusion of Longinian texts and concepts in early modern Europe, and records a crucial missing chapter in the history of the sublime.

Author : Sarah Hibberd,Miranda Stanyon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781108486590

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Music and the Sonorous Sublime in European Culture, 1680–1880 by Sarah Hibberd,Miranda Stanyon Pdf

The first English language collection on the musical sublime. Reveals music's place at the forefront of this interdisciplinary aesthetic category.

Author : Henry J. M. Day
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-24
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781107310971

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Lucan and the Sublime by Henry J. M. Day Pdf

This is the first comprehensive study of the sublime in Lucan. Drawing upon renewed literary-critical interest in the tradition of philosophical aesthetics, Henry Day argues that the category of the sublime offers a means of moving beyond readings of Lucan's Bellum Civile in terms of the poem's political commitment or, alternatively, nihilism. Demonstrating in dialogue with theorists from Burke and Kant to Freud, Lyotard and Ankersmit the continuing vitality of Longinus' foundational treatise On the Sublime, Day charts Lucan's complex and instructive exploration of the relationship between sublimity and ethical discourses of freedom and oppression. Through the Bellum Civile's cataclysmic vision of civil war and metapoetic accounts of its own genesis, through its heated linguistic texture and proclaimed effects upon future readers and, most powerfully of all, through its representation of its twin protagonists Caesar and Pompey, Lucan's great epic emerges as a central text in the history of the sublime.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:$B623166

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Catholic World by Anonim Pdf

Author : Cristina Della Coletta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UVA:X030145408

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World's Fairs Italian Style by Cristina Della Coletta Pdf

According to conventional wisdom, Italy was not an influential participant in the nationalistic and imperialistic discourses that world's fairs produced in countries such as Great Britain, France, and the United States. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, however, Italy hosted numerous national and international exhibitions expounding notions of national identity, imperial expansion, technological progress, and capitalist growth. World's Fairs Italian-Style explores world's fairs in Italy at the turn of the twentieth century in comparison to their more famous counterparts in France, England, and the United States. Cristina Della Coletta demonstrates that, because of its social fragmentation and hybrid history, Italy was a site of both hegemony and subordination - an aspiring imperial power whose colonization started from within. She focuses on two best-selling authors, Emilio Salgari and Guido Gozzano, and illustrates how these authors interpreted their age's 'exposition mentality.' Salgari and Gozzano's exposition narratives, Della Coletta argues, reveal Italy's uncertainties about own sense of national identity, and its belated commitment to Western imperialism. Of interest to students and scholars of literature, cultural history, and Italian, World's Fairs Italian-Style provides a fascinating glimpse into a hitherto unexplored area of study, and brings to light a cultural phenomenon that played a significant role in shaping Italy's national identity.

Author : Williams James Williams
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474439145

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Egalitarian Sublime by Williams James Williams Pdf

We call sublime those things and experiences supposed to be the very best. But what if the best actually leads to inequality and exploitation? Williams critiques the sublime over its long history and in recent returns to sublime nature and technologies. Deploying a new critical method that draws on process philosophy, he shows how the sublime has always led to inequality. This holds true even where it underpins ideas of cosmopolitan enlightenment, and even when refined by Burke, Kant, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer and Zizek. Against the unjust legacies of the traditional sublime, James Williams defends a new, anarchist sublime: multiple, self-destructive and temporary; opposed to any idea of highest value to be shared by all but always imposed on the powerless.

Author : Tanine Allison
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813597508

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Destructive Sublime by Tanine Allison Pdf

The American popular imagination has long portrayed World War II as the “good war,” fought by the “greatest generation” for the sake of freedom and democracy. Yet, combat films and other war media complicate this conventional view by indulging in explosive displays of spectacular violence. Combat sequences, Tanine Allison argues, construct a counter-narrative of World War II by reminding viewers of the war’s harsh brutality. Destructive Sublime traces a new aesthetic history of the World War II combat genre by looking back at it through the lens of contemporary video games like Call of Duty. Allison locates some of video games’ glorification of violence, disruptive audiovisual style, and bodily sensation in even the most canonical and seemingly conservative films of the genre. In a series of case studies spanning more than seventy years—from wartime documentaries like The Battle of San Pietro to fictional reenactments like The Longest Day and Saving Private Ryan to combat video games like Medal of Honor—this book reveals how the genre’s aesthetic forms reflect (and influence) how American culture conceives of war, nation, and representation itself.

Author : Terry P. Abraham
Publisher : Michigan State University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015067690712

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Mountains So Sublime by Terry P. Abraham Pdf

"Picturesque," "immense," "fantastic," and "sublime" are but a few of the words that early British travelers used to describe the nineteenth-century Rocky Mountain landscape and surrounding terrain. As part of a long tradition of travelers' tales, these British tourists, explorers, adventurers, writers, scientists, artists, missionaries, and merchants all looked for ways to describe and illustrate places they visited--in this instance, the vast and strange wilderness landscape of the North America's Rocky Mountains. Using both published and unpublished resources, Terry Abraham weaves these observations, their aesthetic, and their "Britishness" into a refreshing and unique view of an all-but-vanished "West." In their efforts to make the Rocky Mountain West real to a readership on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, these visitors from two centuries past encouraged a growing realization that this part of the North American landscape was unique, a special part of the world's natural heritage. Many also tried to describe the changes that were being visited on the Rockies by onrushing progress. They were among the first who cautioned against excessive human encroachment on the landscape; in fact, they demonstrated what might be called "environmental pre-awareness." Twenty-first century readers will discover surprising parallels between modern environmental and conservation issues and the concerns expressed by these early travelers from the nineteenth.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1993-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438410821

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Of the Sublime: Presence in Question by Anonim Pdf

Today, the sublime has again become the focus of sustained reconsideration, but now for its epistemological and ontological—or presentational—aspects. As an unmasterable excess of beauty, the sublime marks the limits of representational thinking. These essays will be indispensable reading for anyone whose work is concerned with the sublime or, more generally, with the limits of representation, including philosophers, literary scholars and art historians.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Library World's Best Literature: Ancient Modern by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1434 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B2923418

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The American Theosophist by Anonim Pdf