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How Pictures Complete Us - The Beautiful, the Sublime, and the Divine (Hardcover)
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How Pictures Complete Us - The Beautiful, the Sublime, and the Divine (Hardcover)
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Despite the wonders of the digital world, people still go in record
numbers to view drawings and paintings in galleries. Why? What is
the magic that pictures work on us? This book provides a
provocative explanation, arguing that some pictures have special
kinds of beauty and sublimity that offer aesthetic transcendence.
They take us imaginatively beyond our finite limits and even invoke
a sense of the divine. Such aesthetic transcendence forges a
relationship with the ultimate and completes us psychologically.
Philosophers and theologians sometimes account for this as an
effect of art, but How Pictures Complete Us distinguishes itself by
revealing how this experience is embodied in pictorial structures
and styles. Through detailed discussions of artworks from the
Renaissance through postmodern times, Paul Crowther reappraises the
entire scope of beauty and the sublime in the context of both
representational and abstract art, offering unexpected insights
into familiar phenomena such as ideal beauty, pictorial
perspective, and what pictures are in the first place.
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