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Sublime Ascesis: Lyotard, Art and the Event

Pages 199-212 | Published online: 09 Jun 2010

  • Lyotard , Jean-François . 1993 . "The Sublime and the Avant-Garde" ” . In The Inhuman: Reflections on Time , Edited by: Bennington , Geoffrey and Bowlby , Rachel . 102 Cambridge : Polity .
  • Wilson , Sarah and Bowlby , Rachel , eds. 1998 . The Assassination of Experience in Painting -- Monory , London : Black Dog . This movement appears most clearly in the relationship between the two essays, from 1972 and 1981, which make up Lyotard's book.
  • Lyotard , Jean-François . 1984 . "Answering the Question: What is Postmodernism?" ” . In The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge , Edited by: Durand , Régis , Bennington , Geoff and Massumi , Brian . 78 81 Manchester : Manchester UP .
  • For Lyotard's comparison between the tasks of the artist, writer and philosopher, see The Postmodern Condition 81-82.
  • Lyotard . "Answering the Question" ” . 74
  • Lyotard , Jean-Francois . 1988 . The Differend: Phrases in Dispute , Edited by: Van Den Abeele , Georges . 147 Manchester : Manchester UP .
  • Williams , James . 2000 . Lyotard and the Political , 118 London : Routledge .
  • Browning , Gary . 2000 . Lyotard and the End of Grand Narratives , 163 – 64 . Cardiff : U of Wales P .
  • Williams , Lyotard . 1998 . Towards a Postmodern Philosophy , 104 – 13 . Cambridge : Polity . Interestingly, Williams's discussion of Lyotard in his earlier book focuses much more on art and aesthetics and is less quick to condemn the notion of the differend. See
  • Newman . 1992 . "from The New American Painting' in Selected Writings and Interviews , Edited by: O'Neill , John P. 179 Berkeley : U of California P . Newman contrasts his work with that of the European avant-gardes, including Malevich's, in the following exhibition note:I realise that my paintings have no link with, nor any basis in, the art of World War I with its principles of geometry that tie it into the nineteenth century. To reject cubism or purism, whether it is Picasso's or Mondrian's, only to end up with the collage scheme of free-associated forms, whether Miró's or Malevich's, is to be caught in the same geometric trap. Only an art free from any kind of the geometry principles of World War I, only an art of no geometry, can be a new beginning.
  • Lyotard , Jean-François . 1993 . "Newman: The Instant" ” . In The Inhuman: Reflections on Time , Edited by: Bennington , Geoffrey and Bowlby , Rachel . 80 Cambridge : Polity .
  • Hess , Thomas B. 1971 . Barnett Newman , 55 New York : Museum of Modern Art .
  • Newman , Barnett . "The Sublime is Now" ” . In Selected Writings and Interviews Vol. 173 ,
  • Newman . "The Sublime is Now" ” . 171
  • Newman . "The Sublime is Now" ” . 171
  • Newman . "The Sublime is Now" ” . 172
  • Newman . "The Sublime is Now" ” . 173
  • Newman . "The Sublime is Now" ” . 173
  • Lyotard . "The Sublime and the Avant-Garde" ” . 93
  • Newman . 1992 . "Ohio, 1949" ” . In Selected Writings and Interviews , Edited by: O'Neill , John P. 175 Berkeley : U of California P .
  • Newman . "Ohio, 1949" ” . 175
  • Lyotard . "Newman: The Instant" ” . 79
  • Lyotard . "Newman: The Instant" ” . 78 – 79 .
  • Lyotard . "Newman: The Instant" ” . 82
  • Burke , Edmund . 1990 . A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful , 53 – 68 . Oxford : Oxford UP . For Burke's description of the possibility of the cessation of happening in the sublime, see
  • Lyotard , Jean-François . 1989 . "Discussions, or Phrasing 'After Auschwitz'" ” . In The Lyotard Reader , Edited by: Benjamin , Andrew . 389 Oxford : Blackwell .
  • Lyotard . "The Sublime and the Avant-Garde" ” . 90
  • Heidegger , Martin . 1962 . Being and Time , Edited by: Macquarrie , John and Robinson , Edward . 62 Oxford : Blackwell .
  • Poggeler , Otto . 1991 . Martin Heidegger's Path of Thinking , Edited by: Magurshack , Daniel and Barber , Sigmund . 116 New York : Humanity .
  • Heidegger , Martin . 1999 . Contributions to Philosophy (from Enowning) , Edited by: Ernad , Parvis and MaIy , Kenneth . 331 Bloomington and Indianapolis : Indiana UP .
  • Heidegger , Martin . 1993 . "The Origin of the Work of Art" ” . In Basic Writings , Edited by: Krell , David Parrell . 139 – 212 . London : Routledge . In the "Addendum" to this essay, Heidegger explicitly links art and Ereignis in a way that anticipates some of Lyotarcfs arguments: "Reflection on what art may be is completely and decidedly determined only in regard to the question of Being. Art is considered neither an area of cultural achievement nor an appearance of spirit; it belongs to the propriotrVe event [Ereignis] by way of which the 'meaning of Being'... can alone be defined". (210)
  • Heidegger , Martin . 1977 . The Question Concerning Technology: Heidegger's Critique of the Modern Age , London : Harper . This account of the impact of a technologicalscientific view of nature is developed most extensively in
  • Lyotard . "The Sublime and the Avant-Garde" ” . 105
  • Lyotard . "The Sublime and the Avant-Garde" ” . 106 – 07 .
  • Lyotard . "The Sublime and the Avant-Garde" ” . 102
  • Reise , Barbara . 1966 . "The Stations of the Cross and the Subjects of the Artist" ” . In exhibition catalogue The Stations of the UDSS: Lema Sabachthari , 58 New York : Guggenheim Museum .
  • Newman , Barnett . 1992 . statement from exhibition catalogue, reproduced in Selected Writings and Interviews , Edited by: O'Neill , John P. 188 Berkeley : U of California P .
  • Lyotard . "Newman: The Instant" ” . 88

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