The Beautiful And The Sublime Today? Dialogues Between Kant’s Aesthetics And Contemporary Art
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The text is structured as a tour through a fictional exhibition based on Kantian categories of the beautiful and the sublime. In the first room, herman de vries presents a mixed-media installation, recreating a winter visual diary through natural fragments and chromatic arrangements. His work clearly embodies the beautiful—order, harmony, and cosmic connection via natural microcosms, aligning with Kant’s analogy between art and nature. The second room features a Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s wrapped monument, where a white shroud transforms the beauty into the sublime by disrupting daily life and evoking “negative pleasure.” The final room showcases Robert Smithson’s spiral of earth and salt that challenges human perception: its fluctuating scale and cosmic symbolism represent the mathematical and dynamic sublime, overwhelming the senses and transcending earthly limits. The exhibition concludes by reaffirming the relevance of these categories to reinterpret art and human existence.
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