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The Sublime in the Visual Culture of the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic (Routledge Research in Art History) by Bussels, Stijn; Van Oostveldt, Bram is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Contrary to what Kant believed about the Dutch (and their visual culture) as “being of an orderly and diligent position” and thus having no feeling for the sublime, this book argues that the sublime played an important role in seventeenth-century Dutch visual and decorative art, architecture, and theater. By looking at different visualizations of exceptional heights, divine presence, overwhelming natural phenomena, political grandeur, extreme violence, and extraordinary artifacts, the authors demonstrate how viewers were confronted with the sublime, which evoked in them a combination of contrasting feelings of awe and fear, attraction and repulsion. In studying seventeenth-century Dutch visual culture through the lens of notions of the sublime, we can move beyond the traditional and still widespread views on Dutch art as the ultimate representation of everyday life and the expression of a prosperous society in terms of calmness, neatness, and order. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual culture, architectural history, and cultural history.

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Author

Bussels, Stijn; Van Oostveldt, Bram

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9781032375885

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Art, Arts