Are your students baffled by Baudrillard? Dazed by Deleuze? Confused by Kristeva? Other beginners' guides can feel as impenetrable as the original texts to students who 'think in images'. Contemporary Thinkers Reframed instead uses the language of the arts to explore the usefulness in practice of complex ideas.Short, contemporary and accessible, these lively books utilise actual examples of artworks, films, television shows, works of architecture, fashion and even computer games to explain and explore the work of the most commonly taught thinkers. Conceived specifically for the visually minded, the series will prove invaluable to students right across the visual arts. 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. From 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' and 'The Cell' to 'Pac Man' and 'Doom' and from the work of Matthew Barney and Helen Chadwick to 'Lost' and 'Doctor Who', this easily digestible introduction looks at the key ideas promoted by Deleuze, both in his own work and in his notoriously difficult collaborations with Felix Guattari, to make them both fresh and relevant to the visual arts today.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
9781845115470
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95279309
Product Key Features
Book Title
Deleuze Reframed: Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts
Author
Dr David Martin-Jones, Damian Sutton
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Popular Philosophy
Publication Year
2011
Number of Pages
168 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
174mm
Item Width
124mm
Item Weight
136g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Dr David Martin-Jones, Damian Sutton
Series Title
Contemporary Thinkers Reframed
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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