Title: The sublime now /
Authors: White, Luke,; Pajaczkowska, Claire.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Sublime, The.; Sublime, The, in art.; Sublime, The, in literature.; Sublime, The History.; Civilization, Modern
Contents: Pt. I.: Nature, ecology and the sublime -- Thing power and an ecological sublime -- Icy scenes from three centuries -- Ecological aesthetics -- with of without the sublime? -- pt. II.: the sublime and the possibility of meaning -- The sublime, a discourse of crisis and of power, or: "A gamble on transcendence" -- Terror, tears, partaking: the sublime in Burke, Adorno, Stevens -- pt. III.: Capitlaism, terror, art and the sublime -- History, sublime, terror: notes on the politics of fear -- Damien Hirst's diamond skull and the cpaitalist sublime -- pt. IV.: Baroque and beyond: art, sex and the sublime -- The sublime in the work of Cornelia Parker -- Sublime love and seduction, an uncertain requiem: reading the movements of k r buxey's [sic] Saint Theresa -- Vermeer's sublimity -- pt. V.: The cinematic sublime -- Ravishing noir: the unconscious in Hollywood's B-movie sublime -- Manufacturing landscapes, disappearing labour: from production lines to the cities of the future -- A clumsy sublime?: back projection in Alfred Hitchcock and Mark Lewis.