Art Encounters Deleuze and Guattari Thought beyond Representation

by O'Sullivan, Simon

• ISBN13: 9781403918093
• ISBN10: 1403918090
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-04-30
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

In a series of philosophical discussions and artistic case studies, this volume develops a materialist and immanent approach to modern and contemporary art. The argument is made for a return to aesthetics--an aesthetics of affect--and for the theorization of art as an expanded and complex practice. Staging a series of encounters between specific Deleuzian concepts--the virtual, the minor, the fold, etc.--and the work of artists that position their work outside of the gallery or "outside" of representation--Simon O'Sullivan takes Deleuze's thought into other milieus, allowing these "possible worlds" to work back on philosophy.

Author Biography

Simon O'Sullivan is Lecturer in Art History/Visual Culture at Goldsmiths College, London.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Preface	viii
Acknowledgements	x
Abbreviations	xii
Introduction: Three Beginnings	1	(8)
1 Rhizomes, Machines, Multiplicities and Maps: Notes Toward an Expanded Art Practice (Beyond Representation)	9	(29)
2 The Ethicoaesthetics of Affect and the Bloc of Sensations: Reaffirming the Specificity of Art (Against Representation)	38	(31)
3 Art and the Political: Minor Literature, the War Machine and the Production of Subjectivity	69	(29)
4 From Geophilosophy to Geoaesthetics: The Virtual and the Plane of Immanence versus Mirror-Travel and the Spiral Jetty	98	(23)
5 From Possible Worlds to Future Folds: Abstracts, Situationist Cities and the Baroque in Art	121	(23)
Conclusion: Three Endings	144	(14)
Notes	158	(53)
Bibliography	211	(10)
Index	221