The sublime / edited by Simon Morley. - 237 pages ; 21 cm. - Documents of contemporary art . - Documents of contemporary art series. .

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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Art, Modern--20th century.
Art, Modern--21st century
Sublime, The, in art
Art and society--History--20th century
Art and society--History--21st century.

N6490 / .S88415 2010

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