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29 - English Language and Literature
University of Leicester
'Modernism and the Sublime'
This 12,000 word peer-reviewed essay can be found on the Tate website 'The Art of the Sublime': http://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/the-sublime/philip-shaw-modernism-and-the-sublime-r1109219.
It is an output of the Tate/AHRC Major Research Project 'The Sublime Object' for which Shaw was CI (2008-2010). Published in January 2013, the essay explores artistic representations of the sublime in the late nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century. It includes readings of art works by Whistler, Courbet, Cezanne, Malevich, Duchamp, Fontana, Newman, Rothko, Taafe and Bacon. Discussion of these art works is set within the broader contexts of European thought, with particular reference to Freud, Nietzsche and Lacan.
Access to the essay is by url rather than by PDF as it contains live links and illustrations that cannot be accessed by other means.
