Beauty and the Contemporary Sublime (Aesthetics Today)
Publisher: Allworth Press
Published: December 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9781581150377
Subjects: Cultural studies; Theory of art; Esthetics; Contemporary Art; Art; Art & Art Instruction; General; Aesthetics; Criticism; Art / Criticism; Aesthetics, Modern; Sublime, The
First sentence: While working on this book I was often told that beauty and the sublime (despite their prior histories) are for us eighteenth-century concepts defined by assumptions we no longer share.