A01=Helene Ibata
Aesthetics
Artistic process
Author_Helene Ibata
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Edmund Burke
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Representation
Romanticism
Sublime
Unpresentable
Visual media
Product details
- ISBN 9781526117397
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 05 Feb 2018
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book examines the links between the unprecedented visual inventiveness of the Romantic period in Britain and eighteenth-century theories of the sublime. Edmund Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757), in particular, is shown to have directly or indirectly challenged visual artists to explore not just new themes, but also new compositional strategies and visual media such as panoramas and book illustrations, by arguing that the sublime was beyond the reach of painting. More significantly, it began to call into question mimetic representational models, causing artists to reflect about the presentation of the unpresentable and drawing attention to the process of artistic production itself, rather than the finished artwork.
Hélène Ibata is Professor of English and Visual Studies at the University of Strasbourg
