Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Notes on Contributors xii
5. Acknowledgements xvii
6. Introduction 1
7. Part I: Grey Time
8. 1. Hegel’s Grey Aesthetics: Painting in the Intellectual Realm 25
9. 2. Grey Time: Anachromism and Waiting for Beckett 53
10. 3. ‘A Warm Gray Fabric’: Walter Benjamin on Boredom 87
11. Part II: Grey Imaging
12. 4. Spectres of Seurat 121
13. 5. Grey and the Silence of Surfaces 153
14. 6. ‘Whatever Looks Luminous Does Not Look Grey’: Wittgenstein on the Impossibility of Luminous Grey 175
15. Part III: Grey Intensities
16. 7. Barthes’ Grisaille and an Aesthetics of Indifference 203
17. 8. Grey is (not) Grey: Considerations on an Ethics of Attentiveness 249
18. 9. Klee’s ‘Grey Point’ 291
19. Part IV: Grey Thought
20. 10. Fade to Grey: Colour, Greyness and Utopia in the Work of Art (Adorno) 331
21. 11. Grey Illuminations: Foucault and Warburg in the Kingdom of Shadows 357
22. 12. Icy Phantasms, Contemporary Inuit Art and the Grey of Ethno-Aesthetics 387
23. Bibliography 420
24. Index 453