TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «THE SUBLIME»
The term «the sublime» is quite widely used and occupies the
54.375 position in our list of most widely used terms in the
English dictionary.
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10 QUOTES WITH «THE SUBLIME»
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the sublime.
There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime.
If Abstract Expression reached for the sublime, Pop turned ordinary imagery into icons. Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol illuminated the transformative power of context and the process of reproduction. Claes Oldenburg's soft ice-cream cones and hamburgers changed sculpture from hard to soft, from stasis to transformation.
Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.
Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime - terror.
As God has not made anything useless in this world, as all beings fulfill obligations or a role in the sublime drama of Creation, I cannot exempt from this duty, and small though it be, I too have a mission to fill, as for example: alleviating the sufferings of my fellowmen.
Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.
The sublime moment seems to be only a product of allowing yourself to get through, to get to a lot of stuff in your life, write about a lot of stuff and not edit yourself. That is a great lesson to learn for anybody that writes or creates in anyway, to be able to make something without being good or bad.
We've always lived in dark times. There has always been a range of human experience from the sublime to the brutal, and stories reflect it. It's no less brutal now; each age has its horrors.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THE SUBLIME»
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the sublime in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
the sublime and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Sublime Object of Ideology
Linking key psychoanalytical and philosophical concepts to social phenomena such as totalitarianism and racism, the book explores the political significance of these fantasies of control.
2
Extra Virginity:
The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil
Starting with an explosive article in The New Yorker, Tom Mueller has become the world's expert on olive oil and olive oil fraud-a story of globalization, deception, and crime in the food industry from ancient times to the present, and a ...
A remarkably clear study of what is, in essence, a term near-impossible to pin down, this guide is essential reading for students of literature, critical and cultural theory.
4
Observations on
the Feeling of
the Beautiful and
Sublime
Small, beautiful, classic of philosophy, with new cover.
5
Of
the Sublime: Presence in Question: Essays by ...
The eight essays and the afterword are translated from the 1988 French edition. Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
6
The Sublime: A Reader in British Eighteenth-Century ...
Item reprints 18th century texts on the sublime.
Andrew Ashfield, Peter de Bolla, 1996
7
Beyond
the Finite:
The Sublime in Art and Science
There Are Many Sublimes. In the eighteenth century, the sublime was summoned to address an object that existed beyond reason and measure.
Roald Hoffmann, Iain Boyd Whyte, 2011
Explores the literary theme of the Sublime in works ranging from "Emma" to "The Fall of the House of Usher" and Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" to the poetry of William Butler Yeats.
Harold Bloom, Blake Hobby, 2010
9
Solitude and
the Sublime:
The Romantic Aesthetics of ...
Ferguson traces these two positions - the Burkean empiricist account and the Kantian formalist one - to argue that they had significance of aesthetics, including recent deconstructive and New Historicist criticism.
10
Lessons on
the Analytic of
the Sublime: Kant's Critique of ...
This volume presents a close reading of Kant's "Critique of Judgment" looking specifically at the complex paragraphs 23-29: "The Analytic of the Sublime".
Jean-François Lyotard, 1994
9 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «THE SUBLIME»
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the sublime is used in the context of the following news items.
FREE Ticket Giveaway To Concord Residents For Sublime/Rome At …
... contract between Live Nation and the City of Concord, the Pavilion is offering a limited number of free tickets to the Sublime/Rome show on Saturday, July 18. «Patch.com, Jul 15»
Seeking the Sublime: Marc Quinn at White Cube
“There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous,” Napoleon Bonaparte once quipped. Don't believe him? Take a quick scroll through the countless ... «BLOUIN ARTINFO, Jul 15»
Sundance Review: Christopher Abbott Carries the Sublime …
James White begins in a burst of abstraction, with Christopher Abbott's face coming in and out of focus in extreme close-up, swaying slowly in the warm haze of a ... «Vulture, Jan 15»
We need language to shock: why The Sublime gets rape wrong
Last week a play called The Sublime opened at the Arts Centre in Melbourne, staged by the illustrious Melbourne Theatre Company (MTC). Written by Sydney ... «The Conversation AU, Sep 14»
Why Food Pilgrims Will Wait Four Hours For A Taste Of The Sublime
During a trip to Austin, Texas, last year, Sarah Grieco and her friends stood in line for two hours to taste the famously delicious smoked meat at La Barbecue. «NPR, Sep 14»
Theatre review: The Sublime, Melbourne Theatre Company
The Sublime demonstrates the way sports can elevate their stars to untouchable, celebrity status and condone appalling behaviour, but it also disconcertingly ... «Herald Sun, Aug 14»
The Sublime Through the Eyes of Steven DaLuz
Steven DaLuz's ideas about the sublime are an attempt to weave a thread of continuum through art history. By saying that artists from the Renaissance to the ... «Huffington Post, Aug 14»
The Sublime and Beautiful: Slamdance Review
In choosing to take on multiple creative tasks in his first outing as a feature writer-director, multi-hyphenate Blake Robbins mis-calibrates both the tone and ... «Hollywood Reporter, Jan 14»
The Sublime Interview: Catching Up with Bud Gaugh
I met Sublime in 1994 when I was music editor of High Times. They were one of the most supportive bands for the marijuana cause until Brad Nowell's death two ... «CelebStoner, Jun 13»
