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The Sublime Genius : Imagination And Emotion In The Artistic Creative Process| title | The Sublime Genius : Imagination And Emotion In The Artistic Creative Process |
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| start_date | 2025/11/17 |
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| schedule | 14h-16h |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | salle 1, Campus Amyot |
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| summary | This presentation investigates the role of the sublime in the creation of artwork, shifting the focus from the aesthetic experience of the viewer to the subjective experience of the creative subject : the genius. In contrast to both the traditional notion of the natural sublime and contemporary approaches emphasizing reception aesthetics, this contribution centres on the creative moment itself, interrogating the mental, imaginative, and emotional processes behind artistic production. Drawing on modern theories of the sublime—especially those by Edmund Burke and Immanuel Kant, whose thought established the link between art and beauty and opposing the artistic sublime—this proposal argues that the sublime experience, in both its emotional aspects (awe, exaltation, terror, admiration) and its rational structure (awareness of limits, striving for the infinite), can organize the genius’s artistic creative experience. Within this framework, the genius is not merely a producer of exceptional works but one inhabiting an inner dynamic shaped by the interplay of reason, imagination, unrepresentable, and excess—all hallmarks of the sublime. This perspective frames artistic creation as a delicate balance between imagination and emotion, and between the sign as that which traces form and constitutes the boundary of the infinite. The presentation aims to propose a theoretical model redefining inspiration through a cognitive-affective lens and applies it to selected examples from contemporary art, starting in the mid-twentieth century. |
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| responsibles | Dokic, Arcangeli |
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| submitted | published | | 2025/11/04 14:12 UTC |
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