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 utilize
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 Robert Mapplethorpe, Coco Fusco
and Rachel Whiteread 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.
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