The Apocalyptic Sublime

Paley, Morton D.

ISBN 10: 0300036744 / ISBN 13: 9780300036749

Published by Yale University Press, 1986

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1986 Yale University Press (New Haven, Connecticut), 8 x 10 1/2 inches tall brown cloth hardcover in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, gilt lettering to spine, black endpapers, copiously illustrated with black-and-white and color photographs and reproductions of artwork, xi, 196 pp. A near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked - in a like dust jacket which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival Brodart sleeve. ~LL~ [3.0P] From 1775, when John Hamilton Mortimer exhibited his 'Death on a pale horse' to Lord Leighton's abortive project for a Revelation fresco inside the Dome of St. Paul's in the mid-1800s, apocalyptic subjects played an unusually prominent role in British art. This book is the first study of apocalyptic art of this era. Contents: The sublime in British art; Benjamin West; Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg; William Blake; J.M.W. Turner; John Martin; Samuel Colman and Francis Danby; Appendices: 1. The apocalyptic grotesque. 2. Edward Francis Burney. 3. Versions of Belshazzar's Feast by John Martin.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Apocalyptic Sublime
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300036744
• ISBN 13: 9780300036749
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 48 ounces

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Synopsis

From 1775, when John Hamilton Mortimer exhibited his 'Death on a pale horse' to Lord Leighton's abortive project for a Revelation fresco inside the Dome of St. Paul's in the mid-1800s, apocalyptic subjects played an unusually prominent role in British art. This book is the first study of apocalyptic art of this era. Contents: The sublime in British art; Benjamin West; Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg; William Blake; J.M.W. Turner; John Martin; Samuel Colman and Francis Danby; Appendices: 1. The apocalyptic grotesque. 2. Edward Francis Burney. 3. Versions of Belshazzar's Feast by John Martin.