Contents (The Art of the Sublime) | Tate

Contents

Project overview

Acknowledgements

Essays

Christine Battersby, 'Behold the Buffoon': Dada, Nietzsche's Ecce Homo and the Sublime'

Julian Bell, Contemporary Art and the Sublime

Diana Donald, The Arctic Fantasies of Edwin Landseer and Briton Riviere: Polar Bears, Wilderness and Notions of the Sublime

Emma Gilby, The Seventeenth-Century Sublime: Boileau and Poussin

Lydia Hamlett, Longinus and the Baroque Sublime in Britain

Anne Janowitz, The Sublime Plurality of Worlds: Lucretius in the Eighteenth Century

Timothy D. Martin, Psychosis and the Sublime in American Art: Rothko and Smithson

Ian Patterson, Wild Geese Over the Mountains: Melodrama and the Sublime in the English Imaginary 1933–9

Charlotte Purkis, Listening for the Sublime: Aural-Visual Improvisations in Nineteenth-Century Musical Art
Ben Quash, De-Sublimations of Christian Art

Sarah Monks, Suffer a Sea Change: Turner, Painting, Drowning

Martin Myrone, John Martin's Last Judgement Triptych: The Apocalyptic Sublime in the Age of Spectacle

David Norbrook, Milton, Lucy Hutchinson, and the Lucretian Sublime

Christine Riding, Shipwreck, Self-preservation and the Sublime

Christine Riding and Nigel Llewellyn, British Art and the Sublime

Philip Shaw, Modernism and the Sublime

Eugenie Shinkle, Video Games and the Technological Sublime

Alison Smith, The Sublime in Crisis: Landscape Painting after Turner

Aris Sarafinos, Stubbs, Walpole and Burke: Convulsive Imitation and 'Truth Extorted'

Nick Tromans, The Psychiatric Sublime

Luke White, Damien Hirst's Shark: Nature, Capitalism and the Sublime

Case studies

Rina Arya, Bill Viola and the Sublime

David Brown, Sea Pictures: Turner's Marine Sublime and a Sketchbook of c.1803–10

Diana Donald, Sublime Subject: Edwin Henry Landseer's Deer and Deer Hounds in a Mountain Torrent ('The Hunted Stag')

Diana Donald, Sublime Animals: Briton Riviere's Beyond Man's Footsteps

Lydia Hamlett, Sublime Religion: Benjamin Robert Haydon's The Raising of Lazarus

Lydia Hamlett, Sublime Literature: William Hogarth's Satan, Sin and Death (A Scene from Milton's 'Paradise Lost')

Lydia Hamlett, Sublime Portraiture: Jonathan Richardson's Portrait of the Artist's Son, Jonathan Richardson Junior, in his Study and Anthony van Dyck's Portrait of Mary Hill, Lady Killigrew

Lydia Hamlett, Sublime Rhetoric: James Thornhill's St Paul Preaching at Athens

Lydia Hamlett, Sublime History: Louis Cheron's Vulcan Catching Mars and Venus in his Net and the Ceiling of Boughton House's Main Hall, Henry Gibbs's Aeneas and his Family Fleeing Burning Troy, and Godfrey Kneller's Elijah and the Angel

Lydia Hamlett, Sublime Effect: James Thornhill's A Ceiling and Wall Decoration and The Apotheosis of Romulus: Sketch for a Ceiling Decoration and Peter Paul Rubens's The Apotheosis of James I

Anne Lyles, Sublime Nature: John Constable's Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows

Aris Sarafianos, Sublime Action: George Stubbs's Lion and Horse series

Philip Shaw, Mark Rothko's Red on Maroon

Philip Shaw, Piet Mondrian's The Tree A

Philip Shaw, Sublime Destruction: Barnett Newman's Adam and Eve

Philip Shaw, Sublime Sexuality: Lucio Fontana's Spatial Concept 'Waiting'

Philip Shaw, Sublime Spirituality: Wassily Kandinsky's Cossacks

Philip Shaw, The Sublime Exceeded: James Abbott McNeill Whistler's Nocturne: Blue and Silver – Cremorne Lights

Resources

How to cite

‘Contents’, 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/contents-r1141440, accessed 25 April 2024.