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	Allworth Press May 2001, hc $24.95

Sticky Sublime
edited by Bill Beckley

One of the oldest aesthetic concepts, yet long neglected, the sublime's return to contemporary aesthetic debate has stirred a strong sense of wonder, causing the art world to speculate about how the sublime reveals itself in today's après-post, New Technology atmosphere. In Sticky Sublime, some of today's most highly regarded critics, artists, and poets map out the new territory of a concept that is stickier than ever.

Sticky Sublime follows the critically acclaimed Uncontrollable Beauty and is the latest addition to the Aesthetics Today Series, co-published with the School of Visual Arts. Combining classic theory with current discourse, this timely collection of essays documents the intellectually and aesthetically vibrant journey of a concept that has captivated and engaged the minds of great thinkers for centuries. From its philosophical formation through Longinus, Burke and Kant and its almost religious veneration in the works of Wordsworth, Turner, and Friedrich to Barnett Newman's famous statement about the abstract Sublime, this unique volume will provide fuel for endless inspired debates. Whether experienced through the cell phone's expansive space, or in the bottomless seas of the Internet, or standing beneath a giant puppy made from flowers-the new Sublime is less pristine than its predecessors, and it plays off of culture rather than nature.

This thoughtful collection of essays will provoke and inspire academics and non-specialist readers alike. Contributors include: Bill Beckley; Harold Bloom; Barbara Claire Freeman; Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe; Anthony Haden-Guest; Jacques Henric; Dave Hickey; Donald Kuspit; Libby Lumpkin; Thomas McEvilley; Dennis Oppenheim; Carter Ratcliff; Rene Ricard; David Shapiro; Barbara Maria Stafford; Wendy Steiner; Wallace Stevens; Mark Van Proyen; Walt Whitman.

Philosophy/Aesthetics