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Art Encounters Deleuze and Guattari

Thought Beyond Representation

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  1. Simon O’Sullivan
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Part of the book series: Renewing Philosophy (REP)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction Three Beginnings

    • Simon O’Sullivan
    Pages 1-8

  3. Rhizomes, Machines, Multiplicities and Maps Notes Toward an Expanded Art Practice (Beyond Representation)

    • Simon O’Sullivan
    Pages 9-37

  4. The Ethicoaesthetics of Affect and the Bloc of Sensations Reaffirming the Specificity of Art (Against Representation)

    • Simon O’Sullivan
    Pages 38-68

  5. Art and the Political Minor Literature, the War Machine and the Production of Subjectivity

    • Simon O’Sullivan
    Pages 69-97

  6. From Geophilosophy to Geoaesthetics The Virtual and the Plane of Immanence versus Mirror-Travel and the Spiral Jetty

    • Simon O’Sullivan
    Pages 98-120

  7. From Possible Worlds to Future Folds Abstracts, Situationist Cities and the Baroque in Art

    • Simon O’Sullivan
    Pages 121-143

  8. Conclusion Three Endings

    • Simon O’Sullivan
    Pages 144-157

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 158-230
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About this book

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.

Reviews

'Sincere, passionate and unpretentious, O'Sullivan demonstrates how to construct an active engagement between art practice and Deleuze and Guattari's theory. This book sets the agenda for art criticism beyond interpretation and representation, and will be valuable to practitioners, students and academics alike.' - Philip Goodchild, University of Nottingham, UK

Review of Hardback Edition:

'This book is an important contribution to the field of art history and the growing scholarship around Deleuze and Guattari.' - Deleuze Studies

'A smart and accessible introduction to Deleuze's provocative and brilliant contributions to reconsidering art, Simon O'Sullivan has written a book that will open art up to its most contemporary understanding. A thoughtful, intense and original analysis of art as the most aesthetic but also political, ethical and cultural of human forms of self-overcoming, this book will change the way students and scholars understand the place of art in social life.' - Professor Elizabeth Grosz, University of Utrecht, Netherlands

About the author

SIMON O'SULLIVAN is Lecturer in Art History/Visual Culture at Goldsmiths College, London, UK. He has published widely in the area of aesthetics and art theory, including articles in Parallax, Angelaki and Pli. This is his first monograph.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Art Encounters Deleuze and Guattari

  • Book Subtitle: Thought Beyond Representation

  • Authors: Simon O’Sullivan

  • Series Title: Renewing Philosophy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230512436

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2006

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-1809-3Published: 16 December 2005

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-230-57373-4Published: 16 December 2005

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-51243-6Published: 16 December 2005

  • Series ISSN: 2947-5228

  • Series E-ISSN: 2947-5236

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 230

  • Topics: Aesthetics, Arts, Fine Arts

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