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Best known as an activist and practicing psychiatrist, Guattari's work is increasingly understood as both eerily prescient and vital in the context of contemporary culture. This title presents a rehabilitation of one of the twentieth century's most engaged and engaging cultural philosophers.

Badiou Reframed is an original book about an original thinker which applies - for the first time - Badiou's philosophy to the visual arts.

Are your students baffled by Baudrillard? Dazed by Deleuze? This book uses the language of the arts to explore the usefulness in practice of complex ideas. It uses 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.

Are your students baffled by Baudrillard? Dazed by Deleuze? This book uses the language of the arts to explore the usefulness in practice of complex ideas. It uses 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.

Are your students baffled by Baudrillard? Dazed by Deleuze? This book uses the language of the arts to explore the usefulness in practice of complex ideas. It uses 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.

With examples from the paintings of Van Gogh and Picasso, the work of contemporary feminist painters, the photography of Bill Henson and the film and animation work of Van Sowerine, author demonstrates how Kristeva can illuminate the relationships between artist and art object, between artists, artworks and audiences, and between art and knowledge.

Grounds Heidegger's writings in the critical questions confronting contemporary visual artists and students of art. Barbara Bolt takes the most relevant of his texts, including his most famous work, 'Being and Time', and sets out ways of thinking about art in a post-medium, digital, technocratic and post-human age.

Rehabilitating some of Bakhtin's neglected ideas and reframing him as a philosopher of aesthetics, Bakhtin Reframed will be essential reading for the huge community of Bakhtin scholars as well as students and practitioners of visual culture.