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  • Paperback: 176 pages
  • Publisher: Icon Books Ltd; New edition edition (1 Mar 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1840460563
  • ISBN-13: 978-1840460568
  • Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 13.7 x 1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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Traces the pedigrees of postmodernism in art, theory and history, and takes us on a roller-coaster ride through structuralism, semiotics and deconstruction in the company of postmodern icons such as Foucault, Levi-Strauss, Barthes, Derrida, Lacan and Lyotard. It is a crucial guide for anyone fascination or exasperated by postmodernism.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful, impenetrable- of no use on its own., 24 Dec 2003
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As a reference book on postmodernism, this is a great. As a piece of art on postmodernism, it is also a triumph. As an introduction, however, it is completely and utterly useless. If you want to begin to understand the ideas in this book, pick up a "Teach Yourself Postmodernism"- far superiour as an introduction, but it misses out the most recent developments, and is not nearly so fascinating. Until then, this book serves an a labrynthine novelty- afterwards, it becomes a very useful and elegant reference book.
Possibly the only book I've ever read to jump from 1 to 5 stars on second reading.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Hard work but has some real gems, 5 Sep 2000
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Despite the excellent illustrations this books is a bit of a struggle for the uninitiated (possible even for the initiated)especially the second section. As an introduction it probably does its job - it left me with a taste for the subject, wanting to know more and a useful list of further reading. The nature of the book is that it is a swift trawl through an extremely complex subject. My preference would have been a less technically complex text with greater sympathy for the layman...but maybe I bought the wrong book! This is the kind of book that needs an associated website to help answer your questions...hey, maybe I've just discovered a new concept for publishers (hint, hint!)
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2.0 out of 5 stars Where's the glossary?, 28 Sep 2001
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I'm an A level art student so i was half expecting this book to be a little beyond me, but my art tutor found it incredibly hard going too. It's a good idea to put all the hard words in bold, but it would be a better idea to actually explain what they mean. On the upside this book has left me wanting to find out a lot more, maybe thats because i now know a lot of the words and don't know what they mean. I hope they make one of the 'dummies guides' to postmodernism soon!
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4.0 out of 5 stars It isn't the best book I have read on the subject, but does a pretty good job of presenting complex concepts in a simple way...
"Introducing Postmodernism", by Richard Appignanesi, is just as its name suggests, a good basic introduction to Postmodernism. Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant for a student
As a student of Sociology, I am always needing sources of reference to help me understand difficult ideas and theories. Read more
Published on 22 Dec 2003 by David Firth

1.0 out of 5 stars Introducing, my foot!
I have the 1995 edition of this book - same cover, same authors, presumably the same text inside, but with the title "Postmodernism for Beginners". Read more
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