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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. Single-handedly responsible for the influential and ominous notion of 'the gaze', quoted 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 quoted thinkers also explores the reasons why human beings make - and look at - art.
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Steven Levine is Leslie Clark Professor in the Humanities and Professor of History of Art, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
this book is made too complicated as he is adding lots of superfluous comment/ observations
7 Feb 2011
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he makes it more difficult. needs to be PITHY. poor value gave me headache! wiki and yale lectures about Lacan on You Tube were much clearer and simplified ideas to make accessible to me.
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Great aesthetics
29 May 2009
Format:Paperback
Great book as a great guide of the aesthetics of Lacan for the art student. This book written by Steven Z. Levine who teaches at Bryn Mawr bryn college was the teacher and mentor of Dr K. Malcolm Richards who wrote the book "Derrida Reframed" in this same series. The book is short and a quick read which I find useful on the train and is ideal for the art student curious about broadening their view in western aesthetics in the arts or great for the Teacher so they can bring an art class or aesthetics class to a format for this generation.
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