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Author Trifonova, Temenuga, author

Title Contemporary Visual Culture and the Sublime / Temenuga Trifonova
Edition First edition
Published London : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Description 1 online resource : text file, PDF
Series Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Editor's Introduction; 1 The Event That Cannot (Not) Happen; 2 Sublimity and the Dialectic of Horror and Spirituality; 3 The Popular Sublime and the Notional Sublime; 4 Of Fake and Real Sublimes; 5 "Black and Glittering": The Inscrutable Sublime; 6 Uncertainty Prone to Vulgarity; 7 Recentering the Sublime: Cognitive and Neuropsychological Approaches; 8 Flow, Freedom, and the Gamified Sublime; 9 The Ambiguity Effects of the Techno-Sublime; 10 From Diagrams to Deities: Evoking the Cosmological Sublime
11 Feeling Not at Home in the Twenty-First-Century World: The Sublimein Contemporary Environmental Aesthetics12 The Sublime as a Mode of Address in Contemporary EnvironmentalPhotography; 13 Magnificent Disasters: Sublime Landscapes in Post-Millennial Cinema; 14 Psychedelia and the History of the Chemical Sublime; 15 The Birds and the Bees; List of Contributors; Index
Summary "In the course of its long and tumultuous history the sublime has alternated between spatial and temporal definitions, from its conceptualization in terms of the grandeur and infinity of Nature (spatial), to its postmodern redefinition as an "event" (temporal), from its conceptualization in terms of our failure to "cognitively map" the decentered global network of capital or the rhizomatic structure of the postmetropolis (spatial), to its neurophenomenological redefinition in terms of the new temporality of presence produced by network/real time (temporal). 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."--Provided by publisher
Subject Sublime, The, in art.
Arts, Modern -- 21st century -- Themes, motives
PHILOSOPHY -- Aesthetics.
ART -- History -- Contemporary (1945- )
Arts, Modern -- Themes, motives
Sublime, The, in art
Form Electronic book
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