Sticky Sublime

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An enthralling anthology of introspective thoughts from today's most highly esteemed artists, poets, and critics regarding the elusive subject of the contemporary Sublime. A companion to the critically acclaimed Uncontrollable Beauty, Sticky Sublime pushes the polemic on beauty even further, speculating where the beautiful and the Sublime will be situated in our post-postmodern, new technology era. Readers will discover intriguing essays by such respected creators and critics as Harold Bloom, David Hickey, ...

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An enthralling anthology of introspective thoughts from today's most highly esteemed artists, poets, and critics regarding the elusive subject of the contemporary Sublime. A companion to the critically acclaimed Uncontrollable Beauty, Sticky Sublime pushes the polemic on beauty even further, speculating where the beautiful and the Sublime will be situated in our post-postmodern, new technology era. Readers will discover intriguing essays by such respected creators and critics as Harold Bloom, David Hickey, Barbara Maria Stafford, and Anthony Haden-Guest, many of which were composed exclusively for this extraordinary guide. Art history lovers, academics, and anyone else interested in art appreciation will be surprised and entertained by what these internationally acclaimed authors have to say on an idea that has captivated and tangled the minds of great thinkers for centuries.

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Commentary on contemporary aesthetics by 19 critics, academics, and poets, living (Harold Bloom, Anthony Haden-Guest, Barbara Maria Stafford, and others) and dead (Wallace Stevens, Walt Whitman). A companion volume to Beckley's , the anthology considers how the sublime reveals itself in the post-postmodern, new- technology world. The title (and subject) was inspired by a poem of Stevens's that asks: "How does one stand / To behold the sublime." With scattered b&w art photographs. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781581150926
  • Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
  • Publication date: 5/28/2001
  • Series: Aesthetics Today Series
  • Pages: 272
  • Product dimensions: 6.50 (w) x 9.60 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Meet the Author

Bill Beckley has exhibited in America and Europe since 1970. His works are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, and the Guggenheim Museum in New York; the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; and Sammlung Hoffmann in Berlin. He teaches semiotics, literature, and film at the School of Visual Arts in New York and is the editor for the Aesthetics Today series from Allworth Press, which includes Uncontrollable Beauty, and his latest work Sticky Sublime.

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Table of Contents

Preface
The American Sublime 1
Sticky Sublime 2
Emerson and Whitman: The American Sublime 16
Nothing Like the Son: On Robert Mapplethorpe's X Portfolio 41
On the Track of the "S" Word: A Reporter's Notes 49
Turned Upside Down and Torn Apart 57
I'm Not Sure It Is Sticky 84
The Sublime, as Love "a la Colle" 94
Blowtorch 103
The Awakening: Waking Up at the End of the Line 124
New Mexico 157
The New Dionysianism 165
The Epiphanic Sublime 177
The Dalliance of the Eagles 183
Frank Gehry's Anti-Sublime 185
The Sublime Shudder 194
Naked 201
The Sublime Was Then: The Art of Barnett Newman 211
A Burning Interior 240
Acknowledgments 251
Photography Credits 251
About the Authors 252
Index 257
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