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Derrida Reframed: Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts

Author/EditorRichards, K. (Author)
ISBN: 9781845115463
Pub Date30/07/2008
BindingPaperback
Pages160
Dimensions (mm)216(h) * 138(w)
Are your students baffled by Baudrillard? Dazed by Deleuze? This book uses the language of the arts to explore the usefulness in practice of complex ideas. It uses 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.
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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.'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 'differance'. In fact Derrida's work can seem almost impenetrable.
This guide explains Derrida's key concepts through examples from across the whole spectrum of the arts, looking at the work of architects such as Bernard Tschumi and Daniel Libeskind, fashion designers such as Ann Demeulemeister and at the work of artists as varied as Kara Walker, Yinka Shonibare MBE, Rachel Whiteread and Jeff Wall. Showing what Derrida's work really 'means' in practice, this short guide makes this thinker's complex work accessible to a wider public.

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.'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 'differance'. In fact Derrida's work can seem almost impenetrable.
This guide explains Derrida's key concepts through examples from across the whole spectrum of the arts, looking at the work of architects such as Bernard Tschumi and Daniel Libeskind, fashion designers such as Ann Demeulemeister and at the work of artists as varied as Kara Walker, Yinka Shonibare MBE, Rachel Whiteread and Jeff Wall. Showing what Derrida's work really 'means' in practice, this short guide makes this thinker's complex work accessible to a wider public.

K. Malcom Richards is Senior Lecturer at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

Contents List of illustrations vii Introduction 1 Chapter 1. Deconstruction and Of Grammatology: 11 What is in a name? Chapter 2. Framing The Truth in Painting 29 Chapter 3. These boots were made for walking 50 Chapter 4. Fashioning deconstruction 59 Chapter 5. Comic reversals 68 Chapter 6. Deconstructing the domestic 77 Chapter 7. Deconstruction's wake 86 Chapter 8. Going postal: postcards and other 108 identifying documents Chapter 9. Rites of looking 116 Chapter 10. There is no happy medium: 122 Derrida and the televisual Conclusion 133 Notes 137 Selected bibliography 139 Glossary 141 Index 145

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