Tintoretto's Difference

A provocative account of the philosophical problem of 'difference' in art history <i>Tintoretto's Difference</i> 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 <i>Tintoretto's Difference</i>positions 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 semiotics aesthetics and time <i>Tintoretto's Difference</i> offers at once an innovative study of this seminal artist an elaboration of Deleuze's philosophy of the diagram and a new avenue for a philosophical art history.