The Challenge of the Sublime: From Burke's Philosophical Enquiry to British Romantic Art

by Helene Ibata

Book Overview

This book examines the links between the unprecedented visual inventiveness of the Romantic period in Britain and eighteenth-century theories of the sublime. Edmund Burke's Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757), in particular, is shown to have directly or indirectly challenged visual artists to explore not just new themes, but also new compositional strategies and visual media such as panoramas and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526117398
• ISBN13: 9781526117397
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.4" x 8.6"