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Lyotard Reframed A Guide for the Arts Student Cover

Written for students, teachers and those interested in the arts more generally, 'Lyotard Reframed' employs numerous examples drawn from painting, cinema, and comic books, to illustrate the significance of these ideas and to explore their links with phenomenology, Marxism, structuralism, psychoanalysis and deconstruction.

Kristeva Reframed A Guide for the Arts Student Cover

With examples from the paintings of Van Gogh and Picasso, the work of contemporary feminist painters, the photography of Bill Henson and the film and animation work of Van Sowerine, author demonstrates how Kristeva can illuminate the relationships between artist and art object, between artists, artworks and audiences, and between art and knowledge.

Heidegger Reframed A Guide for the Arts Student Cover

Grounds Heidegger's writings in the critical questions confronting contemporary visual artists and students of art. Barbara Bolt takes the most relevant of his texts, including his most famous work, 'Being and Time', and sets out ways of thinking about art in a post-medium, digital, technocratic and post-human age.

Baudrillard Reframed A Guide for the Arts Student Cover

Offers the arts student and others working with Baudrillard's ideas an accessible overview of his better known arguments, as well as extending beyond them to critically engage with his radical notions of illusion, singularity and the fatal.

Derrida Reframed A Guide for the Arts Student Cover

'Deconstruction' is touted in every visual area from architecture to fashion, yet few really understand what Derrida's notorious concept means, much less his elusive idea of 'différance'. In fact Derrida's work can seem almost impenetrable.

Deleuze Reframed A Guide for the Arts Student Cover

Deleuze disdains easy answers. Yet easy answers to Deleuze are what students need. Without reducing Deleuze's complex body of thought to simplistic solutions, this very contemporary guide leads the reader into the world of Deleuze's spiralling thought through concrete examples from art, film, TV and even computer games.

The Art of Self Invention Image and Identity in Popular Visual Culture Cover

Both an exploration of the ways in which we fashion our public identity and a manual of modern sociability, this book explores the techniques we use to present ourselves to the world: body language, tone of voice, manners, demeanour, 'personality' and personal style.

Reading Art Reading Irigaray Cover

Luce Irigaray is one of the foremost philosophers and feminist thinkers. Her work has had an impact on the visual arts. What does her work really mean when it comes to the art made by women artists? This work reveals the implications of Irigaray's work for the relationships between gender, subjectivity, language and art.

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