Beyond the 'narrow limits of painting': strategies for visual unlimitedness and the Burkean challenge

• Published in: Word & image (London. 1985) Vol. 31; no. 1; pp. 28 - 42
• Main Author: Ibata, Hélène
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 02.01.2015
• Subjects: book illustrations; Edmund Burke; J.M.W. Turner; sketches; sublime; William Blake

This article examines the engagement of British Romantic visual artists with the edges of pictorial or graphic representation as a place to experiment with unlimitation. It argues that their heightened interest in these edges was a response to contemporary criticism of the finite nature of painting,...