Taking off from Hegel’s invocation of philosophy as a painting of ‘grey on grey’, this collection of essays explores the rich scope of possibilities implicated by the colour and concept of grey. Crossing art history, visual studies, philosophy, anthropology and literary studies, contributions attest to the repetitious insistence of grey on grey in rethinking the ontology of artworks and images; concepts of time, technique and medium; and how its immanent logic of self-differing summons forth deadlocks and blind spots, both past and present.
Taking off from Hegel’s invocation of philosophy as a painting of ‘grey on grey’, this collection of essays explores the rich scope of possibilities implicated by the colour and concept of grey.
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 f r 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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