Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime is a 1764 book by Immanuel Kant.
Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime
Immanuel Kant portrait c 1790
In aesthetics, the sublime is the quality of greatness, whether physical, moral, intellectual, metaphysical, aesthetic, spiritual, or artistic. The term especially refers to a greatness beyond all pos
Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime
…are intermediate. These require some sensitivity, intellectual excellence, talent, or virtue. There are two kinds of finer feeling: the feeling of the sublime and the feeling of the beautiful. Kant gives examples of these pleasant feelings. Some of his examples of feelings of the beautiful are the sight of…
Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, 1816, Kunsthalle Hamburg. Romantic artists during the 19th century used the epic of nature as an expression of the sublime.
Hahnen, Swiss Alps. British writers, taking the Grand Tour in the 17th and 18th centuries, first used the sublime to describe objects of nature.
Viviano Codazzi: Rendition of St. Peter's Square, Rome, dated 1630. Kant referred to St. Peter's as "splendid", a term he used for objects producing feeling for both the beautiful and the sublime.
Maurizio Bolognini, SMSMS (SMS Mediated Sublime), 2000–2006, an interactive installation that aims to involve the audience in the experience of the manipulation and consumption of the technological sublime