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Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
'A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful' is the centrepiece of this new collection of Burke's early work. It also includes the restored texts of A Vindication of Natural Society and other examples of his work.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Following his 'obsessive, intricate, intimate, and brilliant' (Washington Post) work in Posthumous Keats and The Immortal Evening, renowned poet Stanley Plumly further explores immortality in art through the work of two impressive landscape artists: John Constable and J.M.W. Turner. How is it that this disparate pair will come to be regarded as Britain's supreme landscape painters, precursors to Impressionism and Modernism? How did each painter's...
Publisher
Rizzoli Electa
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Accompanying an exhibition of the same name, 'Natural Wonders' showcases the work of thirteen celebrated American artists who offer multimedia representations of the natural world and the impact of human intervention, revealing fresh and evolving guises of sublimity for the twenty-first century. 'Natural Wonders' spotlights works by Maya Lin, Roxy Pain, Diana Thater, Dustin Yellin, and others, that probe the porous border between the natural and...
5) Poetics
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Aristotle's Poetics is one of the most powerful, perceptive and influential works of criticism in Western literary history." "A penetrating, near-contemporary account of Greek tragedy, it demonstrates how the elements of plot, character and spectacle combine to produce 'pity and fear' - and why we derive pleasure from this apparently painful process. It introduces the crucial concepts of mimesis ('imitation'), hamartia ('error') and katharsis, which...
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