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Beauty and the Contemporary Sublime
Author: Gilbert-Rolfe, Jeremy
Paperback; 4 Colour Illustrations, 20 B&w Illustrations 208 pages Published: November 1999 Allworth Press
ISBN: 1581150377
An esteemed critic, painter, and writer offers a compelling critique of beauty as related to a contemporary notion of the sublime found in technology and high-powered economy rather than innature.This text offers a provocative critique of beauty in interaction with the contemporary notion of the sublime. Refuting established views, the author considers beauty as glamor, related to a sublime now found in technology and capitalism rather than in nature.

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