Sublime in the Visual Culture of the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic

"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 d...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Bussels, Stijn, author (author), van Oostveldt, Bram, author
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, New York : Routledge 2023.
2023.
Colección:Routledge Research in Art History.
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Sumario:"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".
Descripción Física:1 online resource (208 pages)
ISBN:9781003803492
9781003340942