Art History after Deleuze and Guattari

At the crossroads of philosophy, artistic practice, and art history
Though Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari were not strictly art historians, they reinvigorated ontological and formal approaches to art, and simultaneously borrowed art historical concepts for their own philosophical work. They were dedicated modernists, inspired by the German school of expressionist art historians such as Riegl, Wölfflin, and Worringer and the great modernist art critics such as Rosenberg, Steinberg, Greenberg, and Fried. The work of Deleuze and Guattari on mannerism and Baroque art has led to new approaches to these artistic periods, and their radical transdisciplinarity has influenced contemporary art like no other philosophy before it. Their work therefore raises important methodological questions on the differences and relations among philosophy, artistic practice, and art history. In Art History after Deleuze and Guattari international scholars from all three fields explore what a ‘Deleuzo-Guattarian art history’ could be today.

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ContributorsÉric Alliez (Kingston University, Université Paris VIII), Claudia Blümle (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin), Jean-Claude Bonne (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales), Ann-Cathrin Drews (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin), James Elkins (School of the Art Institute of Chicago), Sascha Freyberg (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science), Antoine l’Heureux (independent researcher), Vlad Ionescu (Hasselt University), Juan Fernando Mejía Mosquera (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana), Gustavo Chirolla Ospina (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana), Bertrand Prévost (Université Bordeaux Montaigne), Elisabeth von Samsonow (Akademie für bildende Künste Wien), Sjoerd van Tuinen (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Kamini Vellodi (Edinburgh College of Art), Stephen Zepke (independent researcher)

Introduction: Art History After Deleuze and Guattari Sjoerd van Tuinen and Stephen Zepke
Remake/Remodel: Strategies of Reading Art Historians Vlad Ionescu
Egon Schiele: Vitalist Deleuzian Elisabeth von Samsonow
The Logic of Sensation and Logique de la sensation as Models for Experimental Writing on Images James Elkins
Rhythm and Chaos in Painting: Deleuze’s Formal Analysis, Art History, and Aesthetics after Henri Maldiney Claudia Blümle
Deleuze and Didi-Huberman on Art History Gustavo Chirolla and Juan Fernando Mejía Mosquera
Colliding Chaoïds in Iconology Sascha Freyberg
The Image and the Problem of Expression: Towards an Aesthetic Cosmology Bertrand Prévost
The Late and the New: Mannerism and Style in Art History and Philosophy Sjoerd van Tuinen

Tintoretto’s Michelangelo: An Artistic Diagram as the a priori of Art History Kamini Vellodi
Painting Machines, “Metallic Suicide” and Raw Objects: Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus in the context of French Post-War Art Ann-Cathrin Drews

The Buren Times Éric Alliez with the collaboration of Jean-Claude Bonne
‘A work of art does not contain the least bit of information’: Deleuze and Guattari and Contemporary Art Stephen Zepke
Art’s Utopia: The Geography of Art against (its) History Antoine L’Heureux
About the authors

Sjoerd Van Tuinen

Sjoerd van Tuinen is assistant professor of philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam, where he is also Co-Founder of the Erasmus Institute for Public Knowledge. He is (co-)editor of 'Deleuze and the Fold. A Critical Reader' (2010), 'Deleuze and the Passions' (2016), and 'Speculative Art Histories' (2017).

Stephen Zepke

Stephen Zepke is an independent researcher living in Vienna. He is the author of Sublime Art: Towards an Aesthetics of the Future (2017) and Art as Abstract Machine: Ontology and Aesthetics in Deleuze and Guattari (2005). He is the co-editor (with Simon O’Sullivan) of Deleuze, Guattari and the Production of the New (2008) and Deleuze and Contemporary Art (2010).

Sjoerd Van Tuinen

Sjoerd van Tuinen is assistant professor of philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam, where he is also Co-Founder of the Erasmus Institute for Public Knowledge. He is (co-)editor of 'Deleuze and the Fold. A Critical Reader' (2010), 'Deleuze and the Passions' (2016), and 'Speculative Art Histories' (2017).

Stephen Zepke

Stephen Zepke is an independent researcher living in Vienna. He is the author of Sublime Art: Towards an Aesthetics of the Future (2017) and Art as Abstract Machine: Ontology and Aesthetics in Deleuze and Guattari (2005). He is the co-editor (with Simon O’Sullivan) of Deleuze, Guattari and the Production of the New (2008) and Deleuze and Contemporary Art (2010).

Eric Alliez

Claudia Blümle

Jean Claude Bonne

Anne-Cathrin Drews

James Elkins

Sascha Freyberg

Antoine L'Heureux

Vlad Ionescu

Juan Fernando Mejía Mosquera

Gustavo Chirolla Ospina

Bertrand Prévost

Elisabeth von Samsonow

Kamini Vellodi