Derrida Reframed

ISBN: 9781845115463 出版年：2013 页码：158 K Malcolm Richards Bloomsbury Publishing

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 tmost 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 cimpenetrable.This guide explains Derrida's key concepts through examplthe whole spectrum of the arts, looking at the work of architects such as Bernard Tschumi and Daniel Libeskind, fashion designeDemeulemeister and at the work of artists as varied as Kara Walker, Yinka ShonibaWhiteread and Jeff Wall. Showing what Derrida'means' in practice, this short guide makes this thinker's complex work accessible to a wider public.