Baudrillard Reframed - Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts

Informationen zum Autor Kim Toffoletti is Senior Lecturer in the Sociology and Gender Studies program at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. She is the author of Cyborgs and Barbie Dolls: Feminism, Popular Culture and the Posthuman Body (I.B.Tauris, 2007). Klappentext Kim Toffoletti surveys the ideas of this influential and provocative French thinker as they relate to today's image saturated environment. Vorwort Offers the arts student and others working with Baudrillard's ideas an accessible overview of his better known arguments, as well as extending beyond them to critically engage with his radical notions of illusion, singularity and the fatal. Zusammenfassung Offers the arts student and others working with Baudrillard's ideas an accessible overview of his better known arguments, as well as extending beyond them to critically engage with his radical notions of illusion, singularity and the fatal. Inhaltsverzeichnis IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter One The ImageChapter Two ArtChapter Three ConsumptionChapter Four ScreensFurther Reading

Product details

• Authors: Kim Toffoletti
• Publisher: Tauris, I.B.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.12.2010
• EAN: 9781845116781
• ISBN: 978-1-84511-678-1
• No. of pages: 152
• Series: Contemporary Thinkers Reframed; Contemporary Thinkers Reframed
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries