{"product_id":"tintorettos-difference-9781350170469","title":"Tintorettos Difference","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA provocative account of the philosophical problem of difference' in art history, \u003ci\u003eTintoretto's Difference\u003c\/i\u003e offers a new reading of this pioneering 16th century painter, drawing upon the work of the 20th century philosopher Gilles Deleuze. Bringing together philosophical, art historical, art theoretical and art historiographical analysis, it is the first book-length study in English of Tintoretto for nearly two decades and the first in-depth exploration of the implications of Gilles Deleuze's philosophy for the understanding of early modern art and for the discipline of art history. With a focus on Deleuze's important concept of the diagram, \u003ci\u003eTintoretto's Difference \u003c\/i\u003epositions the artist's work within a critical study of both art history's methods, concepts and modes of thought, and some of the fundamental dimensions of its scholarly practice: context, tradition, influence, and fact. Indicating potentials of the diagrammatic for art historical thinking across the registers of\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn ambitious and well-orchestrated monograph that seeks to address emerging problems in diverse but contiguous domains ... [A] complex but gratifying inquiry. * Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy *\u003cbr\u003eAn important contribution to a genuinely philosophical study of a painter. This book is both a brilliantly argued and highly original study of Tintoretto. It is one of the first to attempt to interconnect the art historical and the philosophical and needs to be viewed as integral to the creation of a new field of study. * Andrew Benjamin, Professor of Philosophy and the Humanities, Kingston University, UK *\u003cbr\u003eEven the most reflective contemporary art history continues to imagine artistic practices as puzzles posed to the discourse of their time. From T.J. Clark's reading of Manet to Georges Didi-Huberman's interpretation of Fra Angelico, the move is to reveal how critical discourse is stalled or ruined by the apparently inassimilable artwork. This strategy is supported by art history's sense of theories and theorists. As an alternative Vellodi suggests Deleuze, for whom such arguments subordinate \"difference to the identical.\" This is an exemplary book: Vellodi reads historical sources together with the recent past of art history, in order to present a \"diagram\" of Tintoretto in which the present is fully implicated. It is a model of thoughtful writing on art. * James Elkins, Professor of Art History, Theory and Criticism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA *\u003cbr\u003eVellodi’s book is destined to become one of the classic studies of Tintoretto, not because it offers a new interpretation of his work, but because it sees Tintoretto’s paintings as an “ongoing affront” to the discipline of art history. As such, Vellodi winds up proposing a radically new approach to the history of art that is inspired by Deleuze, one that focuses less on Tintoretto’s historical context than his “difference” from that context. A ground-breaking and revolutionary book. * Daniel W. Smith, Professor of Philosophy, Purdue University, USA *\u003cbr\u003eWith assured thought and lucid prose, as well as a masterful pacing that allows her initially to broach but also to revisit and further develop complex ideas, Vellodi presents not only an original thesis about Tintoretto’s ‘stage-method’ and a masterful understanding of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, but a work that traverses each as a method of demonstrating art-historical thought at work. * Art History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures Preface  Prologue  \u003cb\u003e1.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eTintoretto: A Problem for Art History? \u003c\/b\u003e - Tradition and Contextualism - Representational Thought - Theory, Philosophy - Towards Deleuze - Deleuze and Art History - The Diagram  \u003cb\u003e2. Tintoretto and his Time?\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003ci\u003eChrist Among the Doctors\u003c\/i\u003e - Annibale’s hesitation - Aretino’s U-Turn - \u003ci\u003eMiracle of the Slave\u003c\/i\u003e - \u003ci\u003eHistoria\u003c\/i\u003e - The Stage-Method - Painting and Theatre - Tintoretto: From Theatre to Drama - Genealogy of the Stage-Method in Tintoretto’s Works - Ridolfi’s Motto - Art History’s Recycling of Ridolfi’s Motto - Deleuze and Diagrams of Art History - Deleuze’s Tintoretto  \u003cb\u003e3.   Diagrammatic Constructivism\u003c\/b\u003e - Thought as Difference - Deleuze’s Diagram and Kant’s Schema - Kant’s Constructivism  - Pierce’s Diagram: An empiricist’s Constructivism - Pure Icons  - Diagrammatic Subversion of Iconography in Tintoretto’s Works - Tintoretto’s Ghostly Figures  - The Genetic method: Maimon and Deleuze - Deleuze’s Transcendental Empiricism - Tintoretto’s Constructivism. Stage Method as Diagram?  \u003cb\u003e4. Diagrammatic Aesthetic\u003c\/b\u003e - Deleuze after Kant: Sensation and Genesis - Genetic Method in the Third Critique  - Material Aesthetic and the Work of Art - Aesthetic Paradigm - Diagrammatic Aesthetic - Diagrammatic Art  - Tintoretto’s Material Constructivism  - Constructivism Beyond Venetian Empiricism  - Tintoretto’s Imagination - Boschini’s Experience - The \u003ci\u003eScuola Grande di San Rocco\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003e5.  Diagrammatic Time\u003c\/b\u003e - Time of Difference - Anachronism in Contemporary Art History - Constructivism, Time and Art - Deleuze’s Syntheses of Time - The Third Synthesis of Time and Nietzsche’s Eternal Return - The Diagram, Genealogy and History - Tintoretto’s Time  - Tintoretto’s Return in the 2011 Venice Biennale   \u003cb\u003eConclusion\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cb\u003eBibliography\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eIndex\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52084832239959,"sku":"9781350170469","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350170469.jpg?v=1762207297","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/tintorettos-difference-9781350170469","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}