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- Title
Presenting the Unpresentable: Jean-François Lyotard's Kantian Art-Sublime.
- Authors
Zuckert, Rachel
- Abstract
This article reconstructs Jean-François Lyotard's theory of the sublime in contemporary art, focusing on his claim that such art 'presents' the unpresentable, and tracing its origins in Kant's account of the sublime. I propose that Lyotard identifies a difficulty concerning Kant's account: to understand why the disparate elements in the experience of the sublime (idea of reason, sensible representation) should be synthesized to form that experience. Lyotard recasts this difficulty as a pragmatic problem for artistic practice – how to 'testify' to the absolute in a non-absolute, sensibly perceivable object (the artwork) – that can be understood to drive avant-garde artistic experimentation.
- Publication
Kantian Review, 2021, Vol 26, Issue 4, p549
- ISSN
1369-4154
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S1369415421000352