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Oscillations in the Dark: Between the Uncanny and the Sublime

Summary/Abstract: This article explores the relationship between the sublime and the uncanny in selected contemporary art works that thematise darkness. Building on Anthony Vidler’s article “Unhomely Houses,” Drabarczyk vel Grabarczyk juxtaposes Freud’s essay The Uncanny with theoretical approaches to the sublime, especially Kant’s and Burke’s, also in the context of contemporary art. The contribution of the uncanny to the aesthetics of the sublime ought to be treated not as a competitive order but rather as a broadening of the code of the sublime. The mutual dependency of the uncanny and the sublime often appears as a shimmering or oscillation.

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