Speculative Art Histories : : Analysis at the Limits.

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...

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