Contemporary Visual Culture and the Sublime

This volume explores the place of the sublime in contemporary culture and the aesthetic, cultural, and political values coded in it. It offers a map of the contemporary sublime in terms of the limits-cinematic, cognitive, neurophysiological, technological, or environmental-of representation.

List of contents

Editor’s Introduction
[Temenuga Trifonova]
1. The Event That Cannot (Not) Happen
[Adrian Ivakhiv]
2. Sublimity and the Dialectic of Horror and Spirituality
[Paul Coates]
3. The Popular Sublime and the Notional Sublime
[James Kirwan]
4. Of Fake and Real Sublimes
[Temenuga Trifonova]
5. ‘Black and Glittering’: The Inscrutable Sublime
[Barbara Stafford]
6. Uncertainty Prone to Vulgarity
[Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe]
7. Recentering The Sublime: Cognitive and Neuropsychological Approaches
[Elizabeth Oldfather]
8. Flow, Freedom, and the Gamified Sublime
[Lyuba Encheva]
9. The Ambiguity Effects of the Techno-Sublime
[Ksenia Fedorova]
10. From Diagrams to Deities: Evoking the Cosmological Sublime
[Hannah Goodwin]
11. Feeling Not at Home in the 21st Century World: The Sublime in Contemporary Environmental Aesthetics
[Sandra Shapshay]
12. The Sublime in Environmental Photography
[Damian Sutton]
13. Magnificent Disasters: Sublime Landscapes in Post-Millennial Cinema
[Stella Hockenhull]
14. Psychedelia and the History of the Chemical Sublime
[Joseph Gabriel]
15. The Birds and the Bees: The Gendering of the Sublime
[Bill Beckley]

Summary

This volume explores the place of the sublime in contemporary culture and the aesthetic, cultural, and political values coded in it. It offers a map of the contemporary sublime in terms of the limits—cinematic, cognitive, neurophysiological, technological, or environmental—of representation.

Product details

• Authors: Temenuga Trifonova, Temenuga (York University Trifonova
• Assisted by: Temenuga Trifonova (Editor), Trifonova Temenuga (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.08.2017
• EAN: 9781138237728
• ISBN: 978-1-138-23772-8
• No. of pages: 236
• Series: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Cultural Studies, ART / History / General, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Philosophy: aesthetics