Speculative Art Histories: Analysis at the Limits

by Sjoerd van Tuinen (Editor)

Overview

Situated at the interface of philosophy, aesthetics, and art history, this collection brings together a series of creative responses to the recent speculative turn in Continental philosophy. It gives you both a genealogy of speculative art history and a provocatively experimental counter-discourse of new speculative art histories.

The contributors include philosophers, art historians, architects and art practitioners who go beyond the mere complementarity of philosophy and art history. They are generous with the types of art they examine, including architecture, cinema, dance, and new media, and the philosophical trajectories they engage with.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781474421058
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	09/11/2017
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

Sjoerd van Tuinen is Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam and Coordinator of the Centre for Art and Philosophy (www.caponline.org). He is editor of numerous books, including Deleuze and The Fold. A Critical Reader (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), Deleuze compendium (Amsterdam, Boom, 2009) and De nieuwe Franse filosofie (Amsterdam: Boom, 2011). He is the author of Sloterdijk. Binnenstebuiten denken (Klement, 2004) and Deleuze and the Passions (Punctum Books, forthcoming).

Table of Contents

List of Figures v

Acknowledgements vii

Foreword viii

Introduction Sjoerd van Tuinen 1

1 Asynchronous Present Past Armen Avanessian 11

2 (Dis)Enchanted Taiwanese Cinema, Schizoanalytic Belief and the Actuality of Animism Érik Bordeleau 21

3 Attractors and Locked-In Art: Art History as a Complex System Francis Halsall 39

4 Enduring Habits and Art Wares Adi Efal 61

5 Mood (Stimmung) / Blandness (Fadeur): On Temporality and Affectively Vlad Ionescu 81

6 The Plasticity of the Real: Speculative Architecture Elisabeth von Samsonow 99

7 Expressive Things: Art Theories of Henri Focillon and Meyer Schapiro Reconsidered Kerstin Thomas 113

8 Gothic Ontology and Sympathy: Moving Away from the Fold Lars Spuybroek 131

9 Serpentine Life: The Nature of Movement in Gothic, Mannerism and Baroque Sjoerd van Tuinen 163

10 Space Always Comes After: It Is Good When It Comes After; It Is Good Only When It Comes After Andrej Radman 185

11 Speculation, Critique, Constructivism: Notions for Art History Kamini Vellodi 203

12 The Potentiality of Art, the Force of Images and Aesthetic Intensities Bertrand Prévost 225

13 Impossible! Bergson after Duchamp after Caillois Sarah Kolb 245

14 Economies of the Wild: Speculations on Constant's New Babylon and Contemporary Capitalism Bram Ieven 265

15 From Etienne Souriau's the Shadow of God to Mats EK's Shadow of Carmen Fleur Courtois-l'Heureux 281

Notes on Contributors 291

Index 297

What People are Saying About This

It was only a matter of time before the speculative turn in the theoretical humanities reached the rarefied halls of Art History. But here, in this creative and rigorous collection, such an encounter is also seen to be prefigured within the speculative impulses of Art History itself. The essays in this timely volume then perform a twin function: they attend to object-orientated philosophies, anti-correlationist aesthetics and the non-human; but also to that rich counter-tradition of Art History that has always attended to art’s own speculative and inventive becomings. A must read for anyone interested in both the future and other pasts of Art History, but also for those working within the expanded fields of art theory and Contemporary Art.

Simon O’Sullivan

It was only a matter of time before the speculative turn in the theoretical humanities reached the rarefied halls of Art History. But here, in this creative and rigorous collection, such an encounter is also seen to be prefigured within the speculative impulses of Art History itself. The essays in this timely volume then perform a twin function: they attend to object-orientated philosophies, anti-correlationist aesthetics and the non-human; but also to that rich counter-tradition of Art History that has always attended to art’s own speculative and inventive becomings. A must read for anyone interested in both the future and other pasts of Art History, but also for those working within the expanded fields of art theory and Contemporary Art.

Editorial Reviews

It was only a matter of time before the speculative turn in the theoretical humanities reached the rarefied halls of Art History. But here, in this creative and rigorous collection, such an encounter is also seen to be prefigured within the speculative impulses of Art History itself. The essays in this timely volume then perform a twin function: they attend to object-orientated philosophies, anti-correlationist aesthetics and the non-human; but also to that rich counter-tradition of Art History that has always attended to art’s own speculative and inventive becomings. A must read for anyone interested in both the future and other pasts of Art History, but also for those working within the expanded fields of art theory and Contemporary Art.

Simon O’Sullivan