James Elkins is E. C. Chadbourne Professor in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He coedited the first two volumes in the series, Art and Globalization (Penn State, 2010) and What Is an Image? (Penn State, 2011), and edited the third, What Do Artists Know? (Penn State, 2012).Harper Montgomery is the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Professor of Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art and Distinguished Lecturer at Hunter College.

• ContentsSeries PrefaceIntroduction, James ElkinsThe Seminars1Introductory Seminar2The Anti-Aesthetic in the 1980s: Craig Owens’s “The Allegorical Impulse”3The Anti-Aesthetic in the 1990s: The Body4Theory and Criticism5Theoretical Positions: Critical Theory6Theoretical Positions: Rancière, Deleuze, Relational Aesthetics7Theoretical Positions: Affect Theory in Art History8Theoretical Positions: Affect Theory at Large9Things Missing from This BookAssessmentsPreface, Harper MontgomeryGrant KesterAlexander DumbadzeGeng YouzhuangCary LevineBoris GroysGregory SholetteEva SchürmannMaria Filomena MolderGary PetersAndrew McNamaraGordon HughesToni RossJustin McKeownTimotheus VermeulenNoah SimblistRebecca ZorachCarrie NolandRobert StorrWilliam MazzarellaLuis CamnitzerJon SimonsAngela DimitrikakiAfterword, Gretchen BakkeNotes on the ContributorsIndex

James Elkins is E. C. Chadbourne Professor in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He coedited the first two volumes in the series, Art and Globalization (Penn State, 2010) and What Is an Image? (Penn State, 2011), and edited the third, What Do Artists Know? (Penn State, 2012).Harper Montgomery is the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Professor of Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art and Distinguished Lecturer at Hunter College.

• ContentsSeries PrefaceIntroduction, James ElkinsThe Seminars1Introductory Seminar2The Anti-Aesthetic in the 1980s: Craig Owens’s “The Allegorical Impulse”3The Anti-Aesthetic in the 1990s: The Body4Theory and Criticism5Theoretical Positions: Critical Theory6Theoretical Positions: Rancière, Deleuze, Relational Aesthetics7Theoretical Positions: Affect Theory in Art History8Theoretical Positions: Affect Theory at Large9Things Missing from This BookAssessmentsPreface, Harper MontgomeryGrant KesterAlexander DumbadzeGeng YouzhuangCary LevineBoris GroysGregory SholetteEva SchürmannMaria Filomena MolderGary PetersAndrew McNamaraGordon HughesToni RossJustin McKeownTimotheus VermeulenNoah SimblistRebecca ZorachCarrie NolandRobert StorrWilliam MazzarellaLuis CamnitzerJon SimonsAngela DimitrikakiAfterword, Gretchen BakkeNotes on the ContributorsIndex

James Elkins is E. C. Chadbourne Professor in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He coedited the first two volumes in the series, Art and Globalization (Penn State, 2010) and What Is an Image? (Penn State, 2011), and edited the third, What Do Artists Know? (Penn State, 2012).Harper Montgomery is the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Professor of Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art and Distinguished Lecturer at Hunter College.

• ContentsSeries PrefaceIntroduction, James ElkinsThe Seminars1Introductory Seminar2The Anti-Aesthetic in the 1980s: Craig Owens’s “The Allegorical Impulse”3The Anti-Aesthetic in the 1990s: The Body4Theory and Criticism5Theoretical Positions: Critical Theory6Theoretical Positions: Rancière, Deleuze, Relational Aesthetics7Theoretical Positions: Affect Theory in Art History8Theoretical Positions: Affect Theory at Large9Things Missing from This BookAssessmentsPreface, Harper MontgomeryGrant KesterAlexander DumbadzeGeng YouzhuangCary LevineBoris GroysGregory SholetteEva SchürmannMaria Filomena MolderGary PetersAndrew McNamaraGordon HughesToni RossJustin McKeownTimotheus VermeulenNoah SimblistRebecca ZorachCarrie NolandRobert StorrWilliam MazzarellaLuis CamnitzerJon SimonsAngela DimitrikakiAfterword, Gretchen BakkeNotes on the ContributorsIndex