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 culture.
By looking at different visualizations of exceptional heights, divine presence, 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.
The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0) 4.0 International license. Funded by Ghent University.
| ISBN: | 9781032375885 |
| Publication date: | 30th July 2025 |
| Author: | Stijn Bussels, Bram van Oostveldt |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 200 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Research in Art History |
| Genres: |
History of art Social and cultural history Philosophy: aesthetics European history The arts: general topics History and Archaeology |
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 culture.
By looking at different visualizations of exceptional heights, divine presence, 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.
The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0) 4.0 International license. Funded by Ghent University.
The Sublime in the Visual Culture of the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic features in the following genres: History of art, Social and cultural history, Philosophy: aesthetics, European history, The arts: general topics, History and Archaeology
The Sublime in the Visual Culture of the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic is available in Paperback, Hardback
The Sublime in the Visual Culture of the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic was written by Stijn Bussels, Bram van Oostveldt and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
The Sublime in the Visual Culture of the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic has 200 pages
Yes it is part of Routledge Research in Art History series
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