Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 00:40:51 -0500 From: rojan josh <rojan-AT-bu.edu> Subject: Re: Req. sublime and lyotard a sporadic thought: in the intro to po-mo condition jameson talks about the "terrorism" of high modernism architecture, which would suggest that it tries to instill a sublime experience of the type suggested below post-modern architecture shys away from the high seriousness and utopian apocalypticism of its predecessor and would seem to abandon the sublime except as citation RJ Christine Mills wrote: > > from Toward the Postmodern: "With the beautiful, it is pure happiness, > the miracle of promise, but with the sublime, it is impossibility, the > imminent threat of non-being. The beautiful is an event of birth; the > sublime, one of death" (155) > for me, part of the answer lies in the threat of > non-being. a response by the artist that is not about soothing, not about > comfort, but is instead about the reaction of the viewer in the face of > kant's "absolutely large". an object that resists apprehending. the sheer > force of that resistance brings a fear of "non-being", a fear of > destruction in the presence of a work that not only does not invite > participation and understanding, but actively deflects it. > > this is almost an inversion of the goal of (especially high) modernism > (though i speak more about 2-D art and literature, i'm not well-versed in > late 20th c. architecture). Lyotard also speaks about the "ravishing of > sensitivity" and i think that may be relevant as well... > > cm > > On Thu, 16 Jan 1997 9336801-AT-lewis.sms.ed.ac.uk wrote: > > > I am looking at the subject of late twentieth century architecture in the > > context of the proposal by Jean-Francois Lyotard that, "It is in the > > aesthetic of the sublime that modern art (including literature) finds its > > impetus and the logic of the avant-gardes finds its axioms." > > I want to know how Lyotard would answer this question himself. > >
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