Badiou Reframed
Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts
1st Edition
Published on 18. December 2016
192 pages
978-1-78673-062-6 (ISBN)
Description
He has been regarded with suspicion by some, as an anti-postmodernist who dared to write about unfashionable concepts such as truth and meaning. But in recent years, the philosopher Alain Badiou has risen in prominence, pioneering new ways to produce, conceptualise and discover art. Badiou Reframed is an original book about an original thinker which applies - for the first time - Badiou's philosophy to the visual arts. The six central concepts of this philosophy - 'being and appearing', 'event and subject' and 'truth and ethics' - are elucidated through detailed analysis of a range of visual artworks, including Marcel Duchamp's readymades, the abstract paintings of Kazimir Malevich and Mark Rothko, Banksy's contemporary street art, the sculpture of Alberto Giacometti, Stephane Mallarme's visual poetry and Victor Fleming's classic film The Wizard of Oz. In focusing on Badiou's critical relationship with the visual arts, Alex Ling reinterprets and represents not only the man, but art itself.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Illustrations
10b/w integrated
File size
2,25 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78673-062-6 (9781786730626)
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12/2016
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Person
Alex Ling is Research Lecturer in Communication and Media Studies at Western Sydney University, Australia. He is author of Badiou and Cinema (2010) and co-translator of Alain Badiou's seminal book Mathematics of the Transcendental (2014).
Content
List of illustrations
Note on the use of mathematics in the text
Introduction. First impressions
Part One. Being and appearing
Chapter 1. Unframing, enframing, reframing
Chapter 2. Philosophy under condition
Part Two. Event and subject
Chapter 3. The shock of the new
Chapter 4. The subject of art
Part Three. Truth and ethics
Chapter 5. From here to eternity
Chapter 6. Keeping the faith
Conclusion. Badiou reframed
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Note on the use of mathematics in the text
Introduction. First impressions
Part One. Being and appearing
Chapter 1. Unframing, enframing, reframing
Chapter 2. Philosophy under condition
Part Two. Event and subject
Chapter 3. The shock of the new
Chapter 4. The subject of art
Part Three. Truth and ethics
Chapter 5. From here to eternity
Chapter 6. Keeping the faith
Conclusion. Badiou reframed
Notes
Bibliography
Index
