Mark Thistlethwaite, Kay and Velma Kimbell Chair of Art History Emeritus, School of Art, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth
In his influential 1757 treatise A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origins of the Beautiful and the Sublime, Edmund Burke declares: “Astonishment is the effect of the sublime in its highest degree.” Taking Burke’s assertion as its starting point, this talk will examine the aesthetic concept of the sublime and the reception of the art of J. M. W. Turner within the context of nineteenth-century American painting.
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