Grey on Grey: At the Threshold of Philosophy and Art (Refractions) - Hardcover

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Kamini Vellodi is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Theory and History of Art at Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. She is the author of Tintoretto’s Difference: Deleuze, Diagrammatics and Art History (Bloomsbury, 2019). Her research interests lie at the interstices of continental philosophy, art historiography and theories of art history and her writing has appeared in journals including Art History, Word and Image, Parrhesia, Zeitschift für Kunstgeschichte, The Journal of Art Historiography and Deleuze and Guattari Studies.

Aron Vinegar is Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas (IFIKK) at the University of Oslo. He works at the intersections of art history, visual studies, philosophy and aesthetics. His most recent book is Subject Matter: The Anaesthetics of Habit and the Logic of Breakdown (Short Circuits Series, The MIT Press, 2023) and his co-edited books include Heidegger and the Work of Art History (Routledge, 2014)

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Inspired by Hegel’s invocation of philosophy as a painting of ‘grey on grey’, this collection of essays explores the rich scope of ideas implicated by grey, as a colour and a philosophical concept. The volume attests to the insistent logic of grey´s self-differing at stake in the ontology of artworks and images, revealing their deadlocks and potentials both past and present. Crossing art history, visual studies, philosophy, anthropology, media, literary and decolonial studies, contributions consider the immanence of grey on grey in rethinking the temporalities, techniques and media of art.Kamini Vellodi is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Theory and History of Art at Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh.Aron Vinegar is Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas (IFIKK) at the University of Oslo.