Challenge of the Sublime From Burkes 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 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 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 artwork.

Info autore

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

Riassunto

Examines the links between the unprecedented visual inventiveness of the Romantic period in Britain and eighteenth-century theories of the sublime.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Helene Ibata, Hélène Ibata
• Con la collaborazione di: Anne Dunan-Page (Editore)
• Editore: Manchester University Press
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 28.02.2018
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Storia dell'arte
• EAN: 9781526117397
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-1739-7
• Numero di pagine: 336
• Serie: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies; Seventeenth and Eighteenth Cen; Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies; Seventeenth- And Eighteenth-Ce > 1
• Categorie: Aesthetics, HISTORY / Social History, Representation, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of Art, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Edmund Burke, Western philosophy from c 1800, Romanticism, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800, C 1700 To C 1800, Visual Media, ART / History / European / Romanticism, Sublime; Edmund Burke; Romanticism; Visual media; Aesthetics; Representation; Artistic process; Unpresentable, artistic process, Unpresentable