Lacan Reframed
Subtitle: A Guide for the Arts Student (Contemporary Thinkers Reframed)
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Published: July 8, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781845115487
Subjects: Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory; Art; Philosophy; Ceramics; Criticism; Philosophy / Criticism; General
Description: "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. Single-handedly responsible for the influential and ominous notion of 'the gaze', "d by everybody yet fully understood by few, Lacan's work can be difficult to grasp. Going back to basics, this introduction guides the reader through Lacan's key concepts by looking at art from the Mona Lisa through to Bridget Riley's paintings, and by looking afresh at key works discussed by Lacan himself, from Holbein's famous 'The Ambassadors' to Velazquez's 'Las Meninas'. Making sense of Lacan's sometimes convoluted style, this highly readable introduction to one of the most frequently "d thinkers also explores the reasons why human beings make - and look at - art."--Bloomsbury Publishing.