title: The Sublime (Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art)
author: Simon Morley
description: "The sublime is spectacularly envisioned by the artists in this book, and gracefully articulated by its authors. The contributors show us that the world can still be transformed. Many of these works and texts perform the contemporary sublime. They open a schism between expectation and sensation, expanding the horizon between the known territories of the real and our capacity to imagine otherwise. They show us that we may still be taken by surprise by scenes of wonder. Aesthetic experience at the brink of our senses removes the familiar ground on which we know and experience the existential condition of being."--Johanna Drucker, Breslauer Professor of Bibliographical Studies, University of California, Los Angeles<br /><br />"In the nineteenth century, the sublime coupled awe with fear of nature, as well as fear of the bogeyman that was the Industrial Revolution. Thomas Cole, Frederic Church, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Emily Bronte, Thomas Hardy and Edgar Allen Poe responded. In the twentieth century, two world wars and the two atomic bombs must have had something to do with the sublime pathos of Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Francis Bacon and the poetry of Wallace Stevens. In this anthology, Simon Morley looks to the twenty-first century, to our sublime. Nothing could be more relevant--socially, morally or aesthetically." --Bill Beckley, artist and editor of "Sticky Sublime"
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  # Ailsa Paige
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Robert W. Chambers
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
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  PREFACE
  
  
  CHAPTER I
  
  
  CHAPTER II
  
  
  CHAPTER III
  
  
  CHAPTER IV
  
  
  CHAPTER V
  
  
  CHAPTER VI
  
  
  CHAPTER VII
  
  
  CHAPTER VIII
  
  
  CHAPTER IX
  
  
  CHAPTER X
  
  
  CHAPTER XI
  
  
  CHAPTER XII
  
  
  CHAPTER XIII
  
  
  CHAPTER XIV
  
  
  CHAPTER XV
  
  
  CHAPTER XVI
  
  
  CHAPTER XVII
  
  
  CHAPTER XVIII
  
  
  CHAPTER XIX
  
  
  CHAPTER XX
  
  
  CHAPTER XXI
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
      
  
  Produced by Al Haines
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  AILSA PAIGE
  
  
  A NOVEL
  
  
  BY
  
  
  ROBERT W. CHAMBERS
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  “It is at best but a mixture of a little good
  
  
  with much evil and a little pleasure with much
  
  
  pain; the beautiful is linked with the revolting,
  
  
  the trivial with the solemn, bathos with
  
  
  pathos, the commonplace with the sublime.”
  
  
  
  
  
  ILLUSTRATED
  
  
  D. APPLETON AND COMPANY NEW YORK AND LONDON 1910
  
  
  
  
  
  COPTRIGHT, 1910, BY
  
  
  ROBERT W. CHAMBERS
  
  
  Copyright, 1910, by The Curtis Publishing Company
  
  
  Published August, 1910
  
  
  