Comparative Viewing of Pictures: Practices of Incomparability and the Theory of the Sublime (E02 [C01])

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In the first funding phase, the project reconstructed formations of practices of comparing in pictures as they were developed in the 18th century among connoisseurs as well as when dealing with pairs of pictures. On this basis, the project is now using the example of the sublime to examine how incomparability is produced and experienced by means of specific comparative practices. Taking Kant's definition of the sublime as its point of departure, the project is investigating how art theory and art practice around 1800 attempted to solve the problem of a pictorial representation or evocation of the sublime by resorting to routinized formations of practices with pictures.