Addressing the sublime: space, mass representation, and the unpresentable

Enunciating Locality in the Postmodern Suburb: FlatIron Crossing and the Colorado Lifestyle

“…Taken together, they create a powerful visual and material recollection of one of the most significant and defining features of Colorado's image-the sublime Rocky Mountains. Nathan Stormer (2004) argues that the 20th century is marked, in part, by the ''commercialization of the sublime aesthetics'' (p. 220). Ansel Adams's nature photographs, Stormer argues ''attempted to coax the public into a rejuvenating, hygienic (or purifying) relationship with nature'' (p. 223).…”

“Open-Mouth Awe”: ESPN'sStreetballand the “Transcendent Simultaneity” of the Media Sublime

“…As Stormer (2004) noted, the rhetorical potential of the sublime experience is staggering. By encouraging audience members to perceive themselves as both singular, vital subject and as an anonymous member of a faceless mass, media texts find themselves in a position to effect potent processes of identification.…”

“…How might media messages, which claim to accurately represent material events and experiences, foster a sublime moment when the sublime embodies an encounter beyond all symbolic representation (Stormer, 2004)? The resolution of this paradox, I contend, lies in considering mass media texts not as depictions of a sublime experience in the material world but as forms of the sublime in and of themselves, irrespective of their actual symbolic content.…”

Shades of sublime : a design for landscape experiences as an instrument in the making of meaning

“…Mass reproductions of sublime landscape paintings and photographs of sublime landscapes have left an imprint and created a phenomenon equal to the 'tourist gaze' (Lewis 2003;Stormer 2004). Moreover, the image of a nature-related type of sublime (e.g.…”

“…Most later interpreters, in uenced by Burke, refer only to the solitary state of experiencing the sublime (see Ferguson 1992;Stormer 2004). Burke's focus on the individual hampers a process that can be shared.…”