The Sublime (Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art)
By Unknown Author.
Description
The continuing relevance and constant reinvention of the sublime -- the transcendent, the awe- inspiring, the unpresentable -- in art and culture since 1945.In the contemporary world, where technology, spectacle, and excess seem to eclipse nature, the individual, and society, what might be the characteristics of a contemporary sublime? If there is any consensus, it is in the idea that the sublime represents a testing of limits to the point at which fixities begin to fragment. This anthology examines how contemporary artists and theorists explore ideas of the sublime, in relation to the unpr...
ISBN(s)
0262513919, 9780262513913
