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. Speculative Art Histories is published in association with Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam.
Full Product Details
Author: Sjoerd van Tuinen
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 9781474421041
ISBN 10: 1474421040
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 31 October 2017
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College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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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, Goldsmiths College, University of London"""
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, Goldsmiths College, University of London""
Author Information
Sjoerd van Tuinen is Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam and Coordinator of the Centre for Art and Philosophy.
