Sublimity, beauty and decorum
White, Luke 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7080-7243
(2007)
Sublimity, beauty and decorum.
In:
Richmond Burton and Maisie Kendall: decorum.
Petry, Michael, ed.
MOCA in conjunction with the Royal Academy Schools, Hornsey, pp. 5-10.
ISBN 9780955257797.
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Abstract
This catalogue essay examines the work of two contemporary abstract painters, Maisie Kendall and Richmond Burton, who were showing together at the Royal Academy Schools Gallery in London, in Autumn 2007. It traces the fate of the "decorative" in modern art, and relates this term to Neoclassical attitudes to decorum. Tracing the turn away from decorum as a validating term in art, with the rise of the related (and gendered) notions of the sublime and the beautiful (with the privileging of the former over the latter), the essay argues that now in work such as Kendall's and Burton's the sensual pleasure of beauty - a kind of indecorous decorum, or a decorous indecorum - serves as a deliberately transgressive and even troubling element.
The essay was produced for the catalogue for the exhibition.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Keywords (uncontrolled): | sublime; sublimity; beauty; history of aesthetics; painting; abstraction; decor; decoration; the decorative; ornament; decorum; gender; Neoclassicism; modernism; Romanticism. |
| Research Areas: | A. > School of Art and Design > Visual Arts A. > School of Art and Design > Visual Arts > Diasporas A. > School of Art and Design > Visual Arts > Visual Culture and Curating cluster |
| Item ID: | 4385 |
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| Depositing User: | Luke White |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Mar 2010 13:15 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Nov 2022 01:55 |
| URI: | https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/id/eprint/4385 |
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