Speculative Art Histories - by Sjoerd Van Tuinen (Paperback)

About the Book

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.

Book Synopsis

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.

From the Back Cover

'The essays in this timely volume 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 A 'counter-discourse' of speculative approaches to art history 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. The range of contributors include philosophers, art historians, architects as well as art practitioners who seek to go beyond the mere complementarity of philosophy and art history. It is generous with the types of art including architecture, cinema, dance, new media and the philosophical trajectories it is engaged with. This book provides both a genealogy of speculative art history and an experimental and provocative counter-discourse of new speculative art histories. The result is a stimulating and timely compendium. Sjoerd van Tuinen is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Published in association with Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art Cover design: Stuart Dalziel, based on a concept by Richard Budd [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN [PPC] 978-1-4744-2104-1 ISBN [cover] 978-1-4744-2105-8 Barcode

Review Quotes

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"

About the Author

Sjoerd van Tuinen is Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam and Coordinator of the Centre for Art and Philosophy. He is editor of numerous books, including Deleuze and the Passions (Punctum Books, 2016), Deleuze and The Fold: A Critical Reader (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), Deleuze Compendium (Boom, 2009) and De Nieuwe Franse Filosofie (Amsterdam: Boom, 2011). He is the author of Sloterdijk: Binnenstebuiten Denken (Klement, 2004).