The Art of the Sublime

ISBN 978-1-84976-387-5

‘Wrong from the Start: Modernism and the Sublime’, 30 November 2009, Clore Auditorium, Tate Britain

Beginning with Ezra Pound's rejection of ‘“the sublime” / In the old sense. Wrong from the start’ (‘Hugh Selwyn Mauberley’, 1920), this one-day interdisciplinary symposium invited participants to consider modernism’s vexed relationship with the concept of the sublime.
The symposium considered what modernism puts forward in place of the sublime, and whether this is solely a narrative of rejection, or if there is any sense of a dialogue with Romantic notions of the vast, the great and the terrifying.

Conference schedule and audio recordings

How to cite

‘‘Wrong from the Start: Modernism and the Sublime’, 30 November 2009, Clore Auditorium, Tate Britain’, in Nigel Llewellyn and Christine Riding (eds.), The Art of the Sublime, Tate Research Publication, January 2013, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/the-sublime/wrong-from-the-start-modernism-and-the-sublime-30-november-2009-clore-auditorium-tate-r1141374, accessed 25 April 2024.