Contemporary Visual Culture and the Sublime (Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138237728 ISBN 13: 9781138237728

Publisher: Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

In the course of its long and tumultuous history the sublime has alternated between spatial and temporal definitions, from its conceptualization in terms of the grandeur and infinity of Nature (spatial), to its postmodern redefinition as an "event" (temporal), from its conceptualization in terms of our failure to "cognitively map" the decentered global network of capital or the rhizomatic structure of the postmetropolis (spatial), to its neurophenomenological redefinition in terms of the new temporality of presence produced by network/real time (temporal). This volume explores the place of the sublime in contemporary culture and the aesthetic, cultural, and political values coded in it. It offers a map of the contemporary sublime in terms of the limits―cinematic, cognitive, neurophysiological, technological, or environmental―of representation.

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About the Author

Temenuga Trifonova is Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Arts at York University in Toronto, Canada.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138237728
• ISBN 13: 9781138237728
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 246
• Editor: Trifonova Temenuga