Terror and the sublime : art in an age of anxiety / Peter Murray and William Laffan.
By: Murray, Peter [author.]
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Contributor(s): Laffan, William M [author.] | Crawford Municipal Art Gallery [host institution.].
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BookPublisher: Cork Crawford Art Gallery, [2009]Description: 127 pages : colour illustrations ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeSubject(s): Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797 | Sublime, The, in art -- Exhibitions | Terror in art -- Exhibitions | Anxiety in art -- Exhibitions | Politics in art -- ExhibitionsDDC classification: 700.4164 Summary: "Inspired by the aesthetic theories of Edmund Burke, first published in 1757 in an essay entitled A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful this exhibition brings together works of art that reflect, consciously or unconsciously, changes in society and ways of thinking that have resulted from political upheavals and advances in technology. Eighteenth-century paintings are juxtaposed with contemporary sculptures and video installations, providing a window into the creative imagination of artists. Separated by three centuries, the works are shown to have a common meaning - the vulnerability of human beings in the face of nature, and the psychological measures employed to come to terms with this. Prognostications of doom and gloom are nothing new. Over each generation, the world has been promised fates far worse. Terror and the Sublime therefore is a curiously optimistic exhibition, highlighting not the obstacles and disasters facing humanity, but rather the capacity of people to survive adversity." - Publisher's website.
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Included in the list of works: George Barrett, Aideen Barry, James Barry, William Bradford, Cecily Brennan, Edmund Burke, Oliver Comerford, Gary Coyle, Francis Danby, Michelle Deignan, Willie Doherty, Jonathan Fisher, Mary FitzGerald, Samuel Forde, James Forrester, David Godbold, Andreas Gursky, Clare Langan, Robert Longo, Fergus Martin, Eoin Mc Hugh, Theresa Nanigian, Paul Nugent, James Arthur O’Connor, Hughie O’Donoghue, George Petrie, Thomas Roberts, Nigel Rolfe, Thomas Ruff, Jim Sanborn, Seán Shanahan, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Paul Winstanley.
Catalogue of an exhibition held Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, 20 November 2009 - 27 February 2010.
Includes bibliographical references.
"Inspired by the aesthetic theories of Edmund Burke, first published in 1757 in an essay entitled A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful this exhibition brings together works of art that reflect, consciously or unconsciously, changes in society and ways of thinking that have resulted from political upheavals and advances in technology. Eighteenth-century paintings are juxtaposed with contemporary sculptures and video installations, providing a window into the creative imagination of artists. Separated by three centuries, the works are shown to have a common meaning - the vulnerability of human beings in the face of nature, and the psychological measures employed to come to terms with this. Prognostications of doom and gloom are nothing new. Over each generation, the world has been promised fates far worse. Terror and the Sublime therefore is a curiously optimistic exhibition, highlighting not the obstacles and disasters facing humanity, but rather the capacity of people to survive adversity." - Publisher's website.