| Description |
1 online resource (unpaged) |
| Contents |
Hupsos: Franciscus Junius and the Reception of On the Sublime -- Sublimis and le merveilleux: Dramatizing, Performing, and Picturing Phaethon's Fall -- Vreese Godts: The Sublime and the Disappearance of God -- Sublime Landscapes and Seascapes -- Magnificence: The Politics of Architecture -- The Medusean Gaze: Terror and the Sublime -- Wonder by Touch |
| Summary |
"Contrary to what Kant believed about the Dutch (and their visual culture) as "being of an orderly and diligent position" and thus having no feeling for the sublime, this book argues that the sublime played an important role in seventeenth-century Dutch visual culture. By looking at different visualizations of exceptional heights, divine presence, political grandeur, extreme violence, and extraordinary artifacts, the authors demonstrate how viewers were confronted with the sublime, which evoked in them a combination of contrasting feelings of awe and fear, attraction and repulsion. In studying seventeenth-century Dutch visual culture through the lens of notions of the sublime, we can move beyond the traditional and still widespread views on Dutch art as the ultimate representation of everyday life and the expression of a prosperous society in terms of calmness, neatness, and order. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual culture, architectural history, and cultural history"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Stijn P.M. Bussels is Professor of Art History and Head of the Department of Art History at Leiden University Centre of the Arts in Society. Bram Van Oostveldt is Associate Professor at the Department of Art, Music and Theatre Studies at Ghent University |
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 22, 2023) |
| Subject |
Sublime, The, in art.
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Art and society -- Netherlands -- History -- 17th century
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Architecture and society -- Netherlands -- History -- 17th century
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Architecture and society.
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Art and society.
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Sublime, The, in art.
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ART / History / Renaissance
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ART / European
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Netherlands.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Oostveldt, Bram van, author.
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| LC no. |
2023027532 |
| ISBN |
9781003340942 |
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1003340946 |
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9781003803492 |
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1003803490 |
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9781003803270 |
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100380327X |
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