Contemporary Visual Culture and the Sublime

Download or read book Contemporary Visual Culture and the Sublime written by Temenuga Trifonova and published by Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies. This book was released on 2018 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Editor's Introduction -- 1 The Event That Cannot (Not) Happen -- 2 Sublimity and the Dialectic of Horror and Spirituality -- 3 The Popular Sublime and the Notional Sublime -- 4 Of Fake and Real Sublimes -- 5 "Black and Glittering": The Inscrutable Sublime -- 6 Uncertainty Prone to Vulgarity -- 7 Recentering the Sublime: Cognitive and Neuropsychological Approaches -- 8 Flow, Freedom, and the Gamified Sublime -- 9 The Ambiguity Effects of the Techno-Sublime -- 10 From Diagrams to Deities: Evoking the Cosmological Sublime -- 11 Feeling Not at Home in the Twenty-First-Century World: The Sublimein Contemporary Environmental Aesthetics -- 12 The Sublime as a Mode of Address in Contemporary EnvironmentalPhotography -- 13 Magnificent Disasters: Sublime Landscapes in Post-Millennial Cinema -- 14 Psychedelia and the History of the Chemical Sublime -- 15 The Birds and the Bees -- List of Contributors -- Index