The Timken Museum of Art‘s current exhibit focusing on American landscape painters from the 19th century is the impetus for a free lecture on Monday.
The lecture “Beautiful Fury” by James Glisson of the Huntington Library will probe the idea of the sublime in landscape art.
From the ancient Roman writer Longinus to a 90s punk band, the word “sublime” has undergone many transformations. One important theme is human limitation in the face of nature–our smallness in comparison to the universe, history, floods, fires and hurricanes.
How beauty can be wrested from destruction and danger is the focus of Glisson’s lecture, which draws on paintings in the current exhibition, “The Romantic Impulse in the American Landscape Tradition.”
The free lecture is at 10 a.m. on Monday, April 9. Online registration is required.
The exhibition at the museum in Balboa Park runs through June 3.
