Sticky Sublime - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 158115092X ISBN 13: 9781581150926

Publisher: Allworth Press / School of Visual Arts, 2001

Synopsis

An enthralling anthology of introspective thoughts from today's most highly esteemed artists, poets, and critics regarding the elusive subject of the contemporary Sublime.  A companion to the critically acclaimed Uncontrollable Beauty, Sticky Sublime pushes the polemic on beauty even further, speculating where the beautiful and the Sublime will be situated in our post-postmodern, new technology era. Readers will discover intriguing essays by such respected creators and critics as Harold Bloom, David Hickey, Barbara Maria Stafford, and Anthony Haden-Guest, many of which were composed exclusively for this extraordinary guide. Art history lovers, academics, and anyone else interested in art appreciation will be surprised and entertained by what these internationally acclaimed authors have to say on an idea that has captivated and tangled the minds of great thinkers for centuries.

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About the Author

Bill Beckley has exhibited in America and Europe since 1970. His works are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, and the Guggenheim Museum in New York; the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; and Sammlung Hoffmann in Berlin. He teaches semiotics, literature, and film at the School of Visual Arts in New York and is the editor for the Aesthetics Today series from Allworth Press, which includes Uncontrollable Beauty, and his latest work Sticky Sublime.

From the Inside Flap

The essays collected in STICKY SUBLIME will re-establish the importance of the sublime. This magnificent book shows that serious historical reflection can guide and inspire present-day debate about the values of art.
David Carrier, author of The Aesthetics of Comics and 1999 2000 Getty Scholar

STICKY SUBLIME is the companion volume to the critically acclaimed UNCONTROLLABLE BEAUTY, the inaugural anthology of the Aesthetics Today series, copublished by Allworth Press and the School of Visual Arts. Here s what critics are saying about this new vision of beauty:

UNCONTROLLABLE BEAUTY seeks to examine the changing role of beauty in the twentieth century and give beauty a kind of critical makeover . . . Thus, while turning to Kant, Freud, John Ruskin, and even Dr. Seuss for inspiration, many of the writings offer beauty a fresh face, casting it as a healing, personal, unpredictable, ungovernable experience. New York Times

Artists are rebelling against the visual starkness and political agendas of art of the recent past, and are growing increasingly unafraid to discuss their work with words like vibrancy, lushness, even glamour. For them, beauty is definitely back in style . . . Many of today s most articulate defenders of beauty are people like Hickey, Beckley, Schjeldahl. They reject what they call the strain of intolerance and aesthetic puritanism running through the art world. Christian Science Monitor

Edition details

• Publisher: Allworth Press / School of Visual Arts
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 158115092X
• ISBN 13: 9781581150926
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 265
• Editor: Beckley Bill