Entre o céu e a terra

transitando pelos raios do sublime através da obra The Lightning Field de Walter De Maria

Abstract

This article intends to analyze Walter de Maria’s work The Lightning Field from on of its most bordering elements: the thunderbolt. The proposed selection is found on the recurrence of the metaphor (or “presentification”) of a thunderbolt in part of the theory of the sublime. The article establishes a dialogue among the thunderbolts of authors such as Longuino, Kant, Freud and Lyotard, in order to promote one more reflection about this contemporary art work that tenses up the traditional categories of art analysis and reception, blurring the limits among sculpture, nature and landscape.