The sublime in augustinian art

Abstract

Throughout this article, an intrinsic relationship is formulated between the pre-Columbian culture known as San Agustin and the aesthetic concept Sublime. This relationship pretends to display how can a theoretical approach proposed in a diametrically contrasting context, be confronted with a later period to the development of San Agustin’s culture. In addition to evidence the conditions and geographical circumstances pre-Columbian habitants experienced daily, it led them to build a system of social, religious and plastic expression. That nowadays permits us to admire the atemporality of their art, allowing it to be understood to the light of the proposed theoretical concept. Definitely is an encounter between art and aesthetic, subjectivity and feeling with the reflexive and rational thought; they are two sources that accomplish to canalize a sole purpose: amaze in the sculptural pre-Columbian creation and deepen into the philosophic reflection of the aesthetic concept.