Speculative Art Histories : : Analysis at the Limits.

• Author: van Tuinen, Sjoerd.
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press,, 2017.; ©2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (313 pages)

This collection brings together a series of creative responses to the recent speculative turn in Continental philosophy. The contributors include philosophers, art historians, architects and art practitioners. It takes a generous definition of art to include architecture, cinema, dance and new media.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. Asynchronous Present Past -- 2. (Dis)enchanted Taiwanese Cinema, Schizoanalytic Belief and the Actuality of Animism -- 3. Attractors and Locked-In Art: Art History as a Complex System -- 4. Enduring Habits and Artwares -- 5. Mood (Stimmung) / Blandness (Fadeur): On Temporality and Affectivity -- 6. The Plasticity of the Real: Speculative Architecture -- 7. Expressive Things: Art Theories of Henri Focillon and Meyer Schapiro Reconsidered -- 8. Gothic Ontology and Sympathy: Moving Away from the Fold -- 9. Serpentine Life: The Nature of Movement in Gothic, Mannerism and Baroque -- 10. Space Always Comes After: It is Good When It Comes After -- It Is Good Only When It Comes After -- 11. Speculation, Critique, Constructivism: Notions for Art History -- 12. The Potentiality of Art, the Force of Images and Aesthetic Intensities -- 13. Impossible! Bergson after Duchamp after Caillois -- 14. Economies of the Wild: Speculations on Constant's 'New Babylon' and Contemporary Capitalism -- 15. From Étienne Souriau's 'The Shadow of God' to Mats Ek's 'Shadow of Carmen' -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.