Out of This World brings together a renowned group of international artists whose works deal with celestial marvels and anomalies, merging the earthly and the profane with the sublime. Artists include Vija Celmins, Colin McCahon, Jorge Molder, Linda Quinlan, Ben Rivers, Peter Rösel, Thomas Ruff and James Turrell.
"The notion of the sublime defies uniform definition, yet it marks the dividing line between extremes, between irrationality and rationality, passiveness and activeness, the empiric and the transcendent, nature and culture, chaos and order, but also presupposes an awareness of this dividing line. As a phenomenon, the sublime is therefore fundamentally ambivalent. Unrepresentable, unnameable and unattainable, the sublime--as an aesthetic category--reaches beyond mere beauty. Its sheer immensity has the power to amaze, to create an overpowering emotion, striking a mixture of awe, admiration and fear into the onlooker."
FORMAT: Hbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 72 pgs / 12 color / 2 b&w. LIST PRICE: U.S. $37.50 LIST PRICE: CANADA $50 ISBN: 9783866784697 PUBLISHER: Kerber AVAILABLE: 9/30/2011 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Out of print AVAILABILITY: Not available TERRITORY: NA LA ME
Out of This World brings together a renowned group of international artists whose works deal with celestial marvels and anomalies, merging the earthly and the profane with the sublime. Artists include Vija Celmins, Colin McCahon, Jorge Molder, Linda Quinlan, Ben Rivers, Peter Rösel, Thomas Ruff and James Turrell.
