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Author Pharabod-Ibata, Hélène, author.

Title The challenge of the sublime : from Burke's Philosophical enquiry to British Romantic art / Hélène Ibata.

Publication Info. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2018.
©2018

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century studies
Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Front matter; Cover; Half title; Series information; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Plates; Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I From the Enquiry to the Academy; The Philosophical Enquiry, theories of the sublime and the sister arts tradition; Presenting the unpresentable: the modernity of Burke's Enquiry; Reynolds, the great style and the Burkean sublime; The sublime contained: academic compromises; Part II Beyond the 'narrow limits of painting'; Immersive spectatorship at the panorama and the aesthetics of the sublime; Frames, edges and 'unlimitation'
'Sublime dreams': ruin paintings and architectural fantasiesPart III Relocating the sublime: Blake, Turner and creative endeavour; Against and beyond Burke: Blake's 'sublime Labours'; Turner: from sublime association to sublime energy; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; Plates.
Summary This interdisciplinary study looks at the influence of Edmund Burke's theories of the sublime on British Romantic art, arguing that it is far more significant than previously imagined.
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Subject Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797. Philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful.
Philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful (Burke, Edmund)
Grossbritannien.
Sublime, The, in art.
Sublime, The, in art.
Romanticism in art.
Romanticism in art.
Art, British -- 18th century.
Art, British.
Chronological Term 18th century
1700-1799
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Ibata, Hélène. Challenge of the sublime. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2018 1526117398 9781526117397 (OCoLC)990854067
ISBN 9781526117403 (electronic book)
1526117401 (electronic book)
1526117398
9781526117397
9781526136114 (electronic book)
1526136112