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The sublime / edited by Simon Morley.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Documents of contemporary art seriesPublisher: London : Cambridge, Mass. : Whitechapel Gallery ; MIT Press, 2010Description: 237 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0262513919
  • 9780262513913
  • 0854881786
  • 9780854881789
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 701 22
LOC classification:
  • N6490 .S88415 2010
Contents:
The unpresentable -- Transcendence -- Nature -- Technology -- Terror -- The uncanny -- Altered states.
Summary: "In a world where technology, spectacle and excess seem to eclipse former concepts of nature, the individual and society ... the notion that the sublime represents a taking to the limits, to the point at which fixities begin to fragment ... examines how the ideas of the sublime are explored in the work of contemporary artists and theorists, in relation to the unpresentable, transcendence, terror, nature, technology, the uncanny and altered states." --back cover.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-232) and index.

The unpresentable -- Transcendence -- Nature -- Technology -- Terror -- The uncanny -- Altered states.

"In a world where technology, spectacle and excess seem to eclipse former concepts of nature, the individual and society ... the notion that the sublime represents a taking to the limits, to the point at which fixities begin to fragment ... examines how the ideas of the sublime are explored in the work of contemporary artists and theorists, in relation to the unpresentable, transcendence, terror, nature, technology, the uncanny and altered states." --back cover.

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