Full Description
Stephen Zepke tracks the sublime art movement from its beginnings in Kant to its flowering in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. He shows that the idea of sublime art waxes and wanes in the work of Jean-François Lyotard, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Rancière and the recent Speculative Realism movement. With it, a visionary politics of art seeks to give it the most creative power possible: the power to overcome our conditions and embrace the unknown.
Contents
AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction. Exiled from oneself: Art and Other Strange Migrations...1. 'Contempt for the world': Kant's Aesthetics and the Sublime 2. 'A stranger to consciousness...': Lyotard and the Sublime3. 'My whole structure of perception is in the process of exploding': Deleuze and Guattari and the Sublime 4. Framing the Abyss: the Deconstruction of the Sublime5. For those who disagree: Rancière and the SublimePostscript: 'Art after experience': Speculative Realism and the SublimeReferences
