The Sublime (Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art) Simon Morley
Publisher: The MIT Press

Here's the new arrivals for May 19th, including selections from Semiotext(e)'s Intervention Series, the Whitechapel Gallery Documents of Contemporary Art. The Documents of Contemporary Art are a series of anthologies co-published by Whitechapel Gallery and The MIT Press which document major themes and ideas in contemporary art. To the contemporary sublime and provides a taste of key essays and books that can then be followed up by the reader. If that wasn't enough contemporary art for you, check out the Whitechapel MIT Press Documents of Contemporary Art series. The anthology forms part of a series 'Documents of Contemporary Art,' so as one would imagine the essays focus primarily on visual art but also encompass wider theoretical investigations into the sublime that should . Since its genesis in 2006, the Documents of Contemporary Art series has been dedicated to providing diverse insights on particular themes by artists and writers from past and present generations who are curated, in a sense, by a guest editor in each of its Following Dillon's powerful Introduction, the “confused chronologies” in Ruins are arranged in four distinct categories: “Modernity In Ruins,” “The Military-Industrial Sublime,” “Drosscape,” and “The Future Now. Ed (2011) Ruins documents of contemporary art. [Internet] Available from:. The Sublime (2010) Edited by Simon Morley Co-published by MIT Press and Whitechapel Gallery; available from Footprint Books. But as the stunt rider stands to his full height on pegs either side of his front wheel and slowly pumps arms in the air, you get the feeling that here, at last, is a powerful and poetic statement, a vision of the sublime remixed to appeal to the streets. Gilbert-Rolfe, Jeremy, Beauty and the Contemporary Sublime, Allworth Press, New York, 1999. (2010) Sur les pas de Herzog, W.[Internet] Available from: . Morley, Simon, The Sublime – Documents of Contemporary Art, Whitechapel Gallery and The MIT Press, London, 2010. Frame & Reference | Contemporary art in the south east · Home · Partners · E-Bulletin · About This year he was included in Nature, a volume in the series Documents of Contemporary Art from Whitechapel/MIT.