Essays about: "sublime"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 42 essays containing the word sublime.
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1. Tantalizing Terrors and Transcendent Thrills : Unveiling the Sublime Aspects in Three Works by Edgar Allan Poe
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : This essay explores the sublime aspects in Edgar Allan Poe’s fictional horror, namely "The Tell-Tale Heart" (1843), "The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839) and "The Raven" (1839). The aim is to show that the sublime – an aesthetic experience articulated by Edmund Burke and Immanuel Kant amongst many – can make the reader oscillate between horror and safety. READ MORE
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2. Towards a new aesthetics of care : a critical reading of Nassauer’s cues to care
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural DevelopmentAbstract : Joan Nassauer’s concept of cues to care has been influential within landscape design since her seminal essay Messy Ecosystems, Orderly Frames was published in 1995 and her research is often used to justify the need for marking landscapes as owned, although there have been critical voices too. The enduring popularity of cues to care as a design method is due to how open it is to interpretation, and this thesis examines various landscape interventions that can be classed as cues to care, both explicitly and implicitly. READ MORE
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3. "What stunning brilliance, what modern veracity:" Jean Baudrillard's America as a Reluctantly Romantic Document
University essay from Lunds universitet/EngelskaAbstract : .... READ MORE
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4. The Sublime as an Aesthetic Experience of Art : The Aesthetic Experience of Mark Rothko's Abstract Paintings
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Filosofiska institutionenAbstract : The following work investigates the nature of the aesthetic experience of the abstract expressionist paintings of Mark Rothko. I suggest that the aesthetic experience in relation to his paintings best is understood in terms of the sublime. READ MORE
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5. Who's there? : monologues on painting, indexicality and perception. A thinking process.
University essay from Konstfack/Institutionen för Konst (K)Abstract : What we encounter in painting is not so much the authentically revealed self of the painter, but rather signs that insinuate that this absent self is somewhat present in it. /Isabelle Graw/ So, then what is a painting? Perhaps it is all about time, a certain amount of time in the constant murmuring stream of consciousness and the unconscious. READ MORE