Contemporary Visual Culture and the Sublime

Buch | Hardcover

236 Seiten

2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-23772-8 (ISBN)

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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.

Temenuga Trifonova is Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Arts at York University in Toronto, Canada.

Editor’s Introduction

[Temenuga Trifonova]

1. The Event That Cannot (Not) Happen

[Adrian Ivakhiv]

2. Sublimity and the Dialectic of Horror and Spirituality

[Paul Coates]

3. The Popular Sublime and the Notional Sublime

[James Kirwan]

4. Of Fake and Real Sublimes

[Temenuga Trifonova]

5. ‘Black and Glittering’: The Inscrutable Sublime

[Barbara Stafford]

6. Uncertainty Prone to Vulgarity

[Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe]

7. Recentering The Sublime: Cognitive and Neuropsychological Approaches

[Elizabeth Oldfather]

8. Flow, Freedom, and the Gamified Sublime

[Lyuba Encheva]

9. The Ambiguity Effects of the Techno-Sublime

[Ksenia Fedorova]

10. From Diagrams to Deities: Evoking the Cosmological Sublime

[Hannah Goodwin]

11. Feeling Not at Home in the 21st Century World: The Sublime in Contemporary Environmental Aesthetics

[Sandra Shapshay]

12. The Sublime in Environmental Photography

[Damian Sutton]

13. Magnificent Disasters: Sublime Landscapes in Post-Millennial Cinema

[Stella Hockenhull]

14. Psychedelia and the History of the Chemical Sublime

[Joseph Gabriel]

15. The Birds and the Bees: The Gendering of the Sublime

[Bill Beckley]

Erscheinungsdatum	12.08.2017
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
Zusatzinfo	21 Halftones, black and white; 21 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 246 mm
Gewicht	748 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-138-23772-8 / 1138237728
ISBN-13	978-1-138-23772-8 / 9781138237728
Zustand	Neuware