Art, the Sublime, and Movement

Art, the Sublime, and Movement

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  • Author: Amanda du Preez
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1000540952
  • Category : Art
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 225

This book is a critical interdisciplinary approach to the study of contemporary visual culture and image studies, exploring ideas about space and place and ultimately contributing to the debates about being human in the digital age. The upward and downward pull seem in a constant contest for humanity’s attention. Both forces are powerful in the effects and affects they invoke. When tracing this iconological history, Amanda du Preez starts in the early nineteenth century, moving into the twentieth century and then spanning the whole century up to contemporary twenty-first century screen culture and space travels. Du Preez parses the intersecting pathways between Heaven and Earth, up and down, flying and falling through the concept of being “spaced out”. The idea of being “spaced out” is applied as a metaphor to trace the visual history of sublime encounters that displace Earth, gravity, locality, belonging, home, real life, and embodiment. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual culture, media and cultural studies, phenomenology, digital culture, mobility studies, and urban studies.


Art, the Sublime, and Movement

Art, the Sublime, and Movement

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  • Author: Amanda du Preez
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISBN: 100054091X
  • Category : Art
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 187

This book is a critical interdisciplinary approach to the study of contemporary visual culture and image studies, exploring ideas about space and place and ultimately contributing to the debates about being human in the digital age. The upward and downward pull seem in a constant contest for humanity’s attention. Both forces are powerful in the effects and affects they invoke. When tracing this iconological history, Amanda du Preez starts in the early nineteenth century, moving into the twentieth century and then spanning the whole century up to contemporary twenty-first century screen culture and space travels. Du Preez parses the intersecting pathways between Heaven and Earth, up and down, flying and falling through the concept of being “spaced out”. The idea of being “spaced out” is applied as a metaphor to trace the visual history of sublime encounters that displace Earth, gravity, locality, belonging, home, real life, and embodiment. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual culture, media and cultural studies, phenomenology, digital culture, mobility studies, and urban studies.


Beyond the Finite

Beyond the Finite

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  • Author: Roald Hoffmann
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 0199792747
  • Category : Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 208

Throughout its long history, and not just as the key aesthetic category for the Romantic Movement, the sublime has created the necessary link between aesthetic and moral judgment, offering the prospect of transcending the limits of measurement, even imagination. The best of science makes genuine claims to the sublime. For in science, as in art, every day brings the entirely new, the extreme, and the unrepresentable. How does one depict negative mass, for example, or the folding of a protein that is contagious? Can one capture emergent phenomena as they emerge? Science is continually faced with describing that which is beyond. This book, through contributions from nine prominent scholars, tackles that challenge. The explorations within Beyond the Finite range from the images taken by the Hubble Telescope to David Bohm's quantum romanticism, from Kant and Burke to a "downward spiraling infinity" of the 21st century sublime, all lucid yet transcendent. Squarely positioned at the interface between science and art, this volume's chapters capture a remarkable variety of perspectives, with neuroscience, chemistry, astronomy, physics, film, painting and music discussed in relation to the sublime experience, topics surely to peak the interest of academics and students studying the sublime in various disciplines.


Sublime Art

Sublime Art

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  • Author: Stephen Zepke
  • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
  • ISBN: 0748670009
  • Category : Art
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 296

Stephen Zepke shows how the idea of sublime art waxes and wanes in the work of Jean-François Lyotard, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Rancière and the recent Speculative Realism movement.


Elements of Art Criticism

Elements of Art Criticism

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  • Author: George Whitefield Samson
  • Publisher:
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  • Category : Art
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 852


Thresholds and Pathways Between Jung and Lacan

Thresholds and Pathways Between Jung and Lacan

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  • Author: Ann Casement
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 100019146X
  • Category : Psychology
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 439

This groundbreaking book was seeded by the first-ever joint Jung–Lacan conference on the notion of the sublime held at Cambridge, England, against the backdrop of the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the Great War. It provides a fascinating range of in-depth psychological perspectives on aspects of creativity and destruction inherent in the monstrous, awe-inspiring sublime. The chapters include some of the outcrop of academic and clinical papers given at this conference, with the addition of new contributions that explore similarities and differences between Jungian and Lacanian thinking on key topics such as language and linguistics, literature, religion, self and subject, science, mathematics and philosophy. The overall objective of this vitalizing volume is the development and dissemination of new ideas that will be of interest to practising psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and academics in the field, as well as to all those who are captivated by the still-revolutionary thinking of Jung and Lacan.


Shakespeare's Perfume

Shakespeare's Perfume

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  • Author: Richard Halpern
  • Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
  • ISBN: 0812236610
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 133

Rather, Halpern argues, sodomy was implicated with aesthetic categories from the very start, as he traces a connection between sodomy and the unrepresentable that runs from Shakespeare's sonnets to Oscar Wilde's novella The Portrait of Mr. W. H., Freud's famous essay on Leonardo da Vinci, and Jacques Lacan's seminar on the ethics of psychoanalysis.


Reading Moving Letters

Reading Moving Letters

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  • Author: Roberto Simanowski
  • Publisher: transcript Verlag
  • ISBN: 3839411300
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 385

»Digital media« is increasingly finding its way into the discussions of the humanities classroom. But while there is a number of grand theoretical texts about digital literature there as yet is little in the way of resources for discussing the down-to-earth practices of research, teaching, and curriculum necessary for this work to mature. This book presents contributions by scholars and teachers from different countries and academic environments who articulate their approach to the study and teaching of digital literature and thus give a broader audience an idea of the state-of-the-art of the subject matter also in international comparison.


Designing Objects in Motion

Designing Objects in Motion

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  • Author: Kensho Miyoshi
  • Publisher: Birkhäuser
  • ISBN: 3035621101
  • Category : Design
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 216

The movement of designed objects is not just something purely functional but also triggers a wide range of sensations. A curtain swaying gently in the wind can cause the onlooker to feel easy and relaxed, as if it was he or she who is floating in the air. This imagined projection caused by the perception of moving objects is called "kinesthetic empathy". In this study, which followed on from a dissertation at the School of Design Research in London, the author investigates the esthetics of movement by documenting his own design-based learning and research process in terms of "research through design", using the experimental cooperation with puppet players as an example. He thereby creates a framework that allows designers to observe the esthetics of objects in motion as a trigger of feelings.


Literary Knowing in Neoclassical France

Literary Knowing in Neoclassical France

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  • Author: Ann T. Delehanty
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
  • ISBN: 1611484898
  • Category : Aesthetics in literature
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 221

This book, spanning the years 1650-1730 in France and England, looks primarily at the history of literary criticism during that period in order to show how the rising interest in the sublime pushes literary critics to entirely alter their approach to theorizing works of literature. It provides a new approach to understanding how eighteenth-century aesthetic theories are indebted to seventeenth-century religious, philosophical, and literary ideas.