Transmissibility: Writing Aesthetic History - Paperback

by Jae Emerling (Author)

This book examines transmissibility to remind us why the vitality and epistemic significance of an artwork is anachronistic and futural.

Transmissibility: Writing Aesthetic History performs a transdisciplinary philosophy of aesthetic history via the work of Gilles Deleuze and F駘ix Guattari, Cy Twombly, Marina Abramovic, Paul Celan, Cecil Taylor, Italo Calvino, Candida Her, and others by focusing on the□artistic and historiographic labor that differentiates artworks from other modes of creation.

Author Biography

Jae Emerling is Professor of Art History in the College of Arts + Architecture at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. He is the author of Theory for Art History and Photography: History and Theory, published by Routledge.