2. Define the concept of the Sublime.

sublime means:  of high moral, aesthetic, intellectual, or spiritual value, noble, exalted.

3. How did the concept of the Sublime come out of the Enlightenment thought?

4. Discuss the subject matter, and aesthetic (look) of Misrach's work to identify the Sublime in his work. Add some more images of his work.

Richard Misrach is one of the most influential and prolific artists of his generation. In the 1970s, he helped pioneer the renaissance of color photography and large-scale presentation that are widespread practice today. Best known for his ongoing epic series, Desert Cantos, a multi-faceted approach to the study of place and man’s complex relationship to it, he has worked in the landscape for over 40 years. Other notable bodies of work include his documentation of the industrial corridor along the Mississippi River known as Cancer Alley, the sumptuous study of weather, time, color and light in his serial photographs of the Golden Gate, and On the Beach, an aerial perspective of human interaction and isolation. Recent projects mark departures from his work to date. In one series, he has experimented with new advances in digital capture and printing, foregrounding the negative as an end in itself and digitally creating images with astonishing detail and color spectrum. More recently, he built a powerful narrative out of images of graffiti produced in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, made with a 4-megapixel pocket camera.
Misrach has had one-person exhibitions at the National Gallery of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Musee Beaubourg, amongst others. A mid-career traveling survey was organized by the Houston Museum of Fine Arts in 1996. His photographs are held in the collections of most major institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. In fall 2010, on the five-year anniversary of Katrina, the exhibition “Untitled [New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, 2005]” made its debut at the New Orleans Museum of Art and the Houston Museum of Fine Arts.
Over a dozen monographs have been published on Misrach’s work, among them Bravo 20: The Bombing of the American West; Crimes and Splendors: The Desert Cantos of Richard Misrach; The Sky Book; Richard Misrach: Golden Gate; Chronologies; On the Beach, and Destroy this Memory. He is the recipient of numerous awards in the arts including 4 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2002 he was given the Kulturpreis for Lifetime Achievement in Photography by the German Society for Photography, and in 2008 the Lucie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Fine Art Photography

5. Identify some other artists or designers that work with ideas around the Sublime, from the Enlightenment era as well as contemporary artists.

This painting also shows the influence of Claude Lorraine and Jean Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796-1875). The artist Frank Peyraud (1858-1948) was born in Switzerland and moved to Chicago in 1881. 

 This engraving features a classical composition, framed by trees on the left, of a calm evening on the Mississippi River at Nauvoo, Illinois.

6. How does Misrach's photography make you feel? Does it appeal to your imagination?

, some of the photo quite appeal to my imagination, feel his photography very lonely and cold,
i think that is what he want to show us in his works" landscape and the sublime.

7. Add a Sublime image of your choice to your blog, which can be Art or just a Sublime photograph.

8. Reference your sources (books and websites).

http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/lewis_clark_il/htmls/il_country_exp/places/beautiful_sublime.html#
http://www.superhappypuppy.com/shp/Artist_Gallery/Pages/Richard_Misrach.html?gclid=CNjA96H9kagCFUeApAodewzSCw
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Misrach
http://www.google.co.nz/images?hl=en&q=landscape&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=li&biw=1296&bih=627