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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811614803321

Autore

van Tuinen Sjoerd

Titolo

Speculative art histories : analysis at the limits / / edited by Sjoerd van Tuinen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

1-4744-2106-7

1-4744-2107-5

1-4744-3860-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 302 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

701

Soggetti

Art - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- 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 Etienne Souriau's the Shadow of God to Mats Ek's Shadow of Carmen -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

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.