'In the contemporary world, where technology, spectacle, and excess seem to eclipse former concepts of nature, the individual and society, what might be the characteristics of a contemporary sublime? If there is any consensus, it is in the notion that the sublime represents a taking to the limits, to the point at which fixities begin to fragment. This anthology examines how ideas of the sublime are explored in the work of contemporary artists and theorists, in relation to the unpresentable, transcendence, terror, nature, technology, the uncanny, and altered states.
'Artists surveyed include: Marina Abramovic, Joseph Beuys, Tacita Dean, Walter De Maria, A K Dolven, Olafur Eliasson, Andreas Gursky, Jitka Hanzlová, Gary Hill, Susan Hiller, Shirazeh Houshiary, Anish Kapoor, Mike Kelley, Anselm Kiefer, Yves Klein, Richard Long, Barnett Newman, Tony Oursler, Cornelia Parker, Gerhard Richter, Doris Salcedo, Lorna Simpson, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Fred Tomaselli, James Turrell, Luc Tuymans, Bill Viola, Zhang Huan.' (Back cover)
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Introduction: The Contemporary Sublime - Simon MORLEY
The Unpresentable
To Draw the Flow of Time, 1957 - Henri MICHAUX
The Sublime is Now, 1948 - Barnett NEWMAN
The Sublime and the Avant-Garde, 1988 - Jean-Francois LYOTARD
Parergon, 1978 - Jacques DERRIDA
The Sublime Offering, 1988 - Jean-Luc NANCY
Lacan: Sublimity and Sublimation, 2007 - Philip Shaw
The Sublime Object of Ideology, 2009 - Slavoj ZIZEK
The Feminine Sublime, 1995 - Barbara Claire FREEMAN
The Aesthetic Revolution and Its Outcomes, 2007 - Jacques RANCIERE
Transcendence
Truth Becomes Reality, 1961 - Yves KLEIN
Creating Heaven, 1999 - Doreet LEVITTE-HARTEN
Belief Itself, 2002 - Luce IRIGARAY
Secret Wisdom and Self-Effacement: The Spiritual in the Modern Age, 1996 - David Morgan
The Echoes of Enchantment, 1996 - Jean FISHER
Interview with Marjorie Allthorpe-Guyton, 1990 - Anish Kapoor
Interview with Stella Santacatterina, 1994 - Shirazeh Houshiary
The Crossing, 1996 - Bill VIOLA
Spirit and Light and Immensity Within, 1998 - Lynn M. Herbert
Void: Mapping the Invisible in Korean Art, 2007 - LEE Joon, 이준
Nature
Heave and Earth, 2001 - Richard LONG
The Abstract Sublime, 1961 - Robert ROSENBLUM
Statement, 1973 - Gerhard Richter
Frederick Law Olmsted and the Dialectical Landscape, 1973 - Robert SMITHSON
Some Facts, Notes, Data, Information, Statistics and Statements, 1980 - Walter DE MARIA
Bas Jan Ader, 1997 - Tacita DEAN
The Weather Forecast and Now, 2001 - Olafur ELIASSON
Into the Woods: On Jitka Hanzlova's Forest, 2006 - John BERGER
Technology
Presenting the Unpresentable: The Sublime, 1982 - Jean-Francois LYOTARD
Beauty and the Contemporary Sublime, 1999 - Jeremy GILBERT-ROLFE
Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, 1991 - Fredric JAMESON
Is There Love in the Telematic Embrace?, 1990 - Roy ASCOTT
Terror
Manifesto: Auto-Destructive Art, 1960 - Gustav METZGER
The Gothic Sublime, 1994 - Vijay Mishra
The Logic of Terror, 1979 - Thomas Weiskel
Approaching Abjection, 1980 - Julia KRISTEVA
Turned Upside Down and Torn Apart, 2001 - Thomas MCEVILLEY
Joseph Beuys and the After-Auschwitz Sublime, 2001 - Gene Ray
Memory of Oblivion, 2006 - Marco Belpoliti
Tuymans' Terror, 1997 - Lawrence R. RINDER
Interview with Charles Merewether, 1998 - Doris Salcedo
The American Sublime and the Racial Self, 2006 - Okwui ENWEZOR
The Uncanny
Formula for a New Urbanism, 1958 - Gilles Ivain
In Conversation with Thomas McEvilley, 1992 - Mike KELLEY
Noh Such Thing as Time, 2002 - Hiroshi SUGIMOTO, 杉本博司
A Found Page, 2004 - A K DOLVEN
Altered States
Statements, 1992 - Marina ABRAMOVIC
Beyond the Body, 1988 - Stelarc
HanD HearD/ Liminal Objects, 2000 - George QUASHA
'Ourself behind Ourself, Concealed...': Ethereal Whispers from the Dark Side, 2000 - Marina WARNER
Interview with Siri Hustvedt, 2007 - Fred Tomaselli
Zhang Huan: Becoming the Body, 2008 - Eleanor HEARTNEY
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