In 1886 the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche declared the sublime out of date. A number of artists of early and mid-twentieth century continued to engage with concepts of the sublime, though often in ...

Robert Bevan and Stanislawa de Karlowska settle at 14 Adamson Road in the Swiss Cottage area of London. Albert Rutherston contributes two pictures to the New English Art Club and meets Walter Sickert ...

Contemporary artists have extended the vocabulary of the sublime by looking back to earlier traditions and by engaging with aspects of modern society. They have located the sublime in not only the ...

Kurt Schwitters' will leaving his possessions to Edith Thomas and legal document presenting the will as an exhibit, possibly in the court case between Edith Thomas and Ernst Schwitters. Presented by ...

Installation view of Samia Halaby, Tottenham Court Road 2024 at Outernet London In celebration of the opening of Tate Modern’s major new exhibition, Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the ...

Edmund Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry (1757) connected the sublime with experiences of awe, terror and danger. Burke saw nature as the most sublime object, capable ...

Emerging alongside a network of notable figures such as Scarlett Cannon, Boy George and Princess Julia, Bowery cemented his ...

The exhibition’s title ‘Walk the House’ is drawn from a Korean expression referring to the hanok – a house that could ...

This project will examine art produced in relation to the HIV and AIDS epidemic in Britain from 1987 to 1996. The art historian Simon Watney argued that British governmental policies and their ...

The sublime has long been understood to mean a quality of greatness or grandeur that inspires awe and wonder. From the seventeenth century onwards the concept and the emotions it inspires have been a ...