Transmissibility: Writing Aesthetic History

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 Félix Guattari, Cy Twombly, Marina Abramovic, Paul Celan, Cecil Taylor, Italo Calvino, Candida Höfer, and others by focusing on the□artistic and historiographic labor that differentiates artworks from other modes of creation.

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.