Jean Baudrillard, Art and Artefact

This book offers a major reappraisal of Jean Baudrillard′s thoughts on the image, radical illusion and media culture.

Here for the first time, through a number of highly accessible interviews and recent essays, Baudrillard introduces what he calls the stunning clarity′ of the photographic, and fascinatingly outlines his present thoughts on urban reality, aesthetics, virtual reality and new media technologies, in the light of his practice as a photographer.

The book is illustrated with eight colour plates of Baudrillard′s photographs and includes a number of provocative and illuminating responses to his recent writings from noted Baudrillard scholars. It also includes a definitive bibliography of c

Author: Nicholas Zurbrugg
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Published: 01/12/1998
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.43d
ISBN: 9780761955801

About the Author
Zurbrugg, Nicholas: - Nicholas Zurbrugg is professor of English and Cultural Studies in the School of Arts and Humanities, de Montfort University, Leicester

CONTRIBUTORS

Rex Butler University of Queensland

Alan Cholodenko University of Toronto

Graham Coulter-Smith Griffith University

Gary Genosko Toronto

Paul Patton University of Sydney

Richard G Smith University of Bristol

Anne-Marie Willis University of New South Wales

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