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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.
Contents
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
