For Jaeger, the charisma of the visual arts, literature, and film functions by creating an exalted semblance of life, a realm of beauty, sublime emotions, heroic motives and deeds, godlike bodies and actions, and superhuman abilities, so as to dazzle the humbled spectator and lift him or her up into the place so represented.
And we've all also experienced really sublime emotions.
A common idea about the art is that the music transforms banal words and unbelievable situations into sublime emotion: that it's purely about performance.
May 11 2014 James Levine and his magnificent orchestra draw a musical picture of Dvořák, full of sublime melody and turbulent emotions, in a concert that offers the "Carnival" Overture, the Seventh Symphony, and the Cello Concerto (with a treasured Levine colleague, the cellist Lynn Harrell).
The Hindu remarked on Vidya's ability to be "in sublime control over her emotions" and Savera Someshwar of Rediff.com added that "her hesitant body language, her faith, her helplessness, her rage, her sorrow and her gratitude all come across beautifully".
Still the tumultuous emotions this sublime object excited, were pleasurable; and, viewing it, my soul rose, with renewed dignity, above its cares – grasping at immortality – it seemed as impossible to stop the current of my thoughts, as of the always varying, still the same, torrent before me – I stretched out my hand to eternity, bounding over the dark speck of life to come.
For Edmund Burke, the sublime is an intense emotion of awe and terror, for Immanuel Kant it involves the "mind surpassing every standard of sense", for Jean-Francois Lyotard it is the unpresentable itself.
This often overrides the sublime capacity to absorb positive emotions and all that is beautiful.
The sublime suggests a paradoxical blurring of emotions.
She argues that subjective experiences, such as the transcendent emotions prompted by the sublime and the beautiful, possess a value equal to the objective truths discovered through reason.
Yet, for all its moments of genuine emotion bordering on the sublime, it was not written specifically for Easter Sunday and shows just what a pragmatic recycler Bach could be.
