Jean Baudrillard, Art and Artefact / Edition 1

by Nicholas Zurbrugg

Overview

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 incudes a definitive bibliography of critical responses to Baudrillard's writings on media culture, art and photography.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761955801
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	01/12/1998
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.43(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction - Nicholas Zurbrugg
‘Just What Is It That Makes Baudrillard's Ideas So Different, So Appealing?'
Objects, Images and the Possibilities of Aesthetic Illusion - Jean Baudrillard
Aesthetic Illusion and Virtual Reality - Jean Baudrillard
The Art of Disappearance - Jean Baudrillard
The Ecstasy of Photography - Jean Baudrillard interviewed by Nicholas Zurbrugg
Baudrillard's List - Jean Baudrillard interviewed by Rex Butler
Jean Baudrillard's Defence of the Real - Rex Butler
Reading In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities as an Allegory of Representation
‘Objects in Mirror are Closer Than They Appear' - Alan Cholodenko
The Virtual Reality of Jurassic Park and Jean Baudrillard
Between Marx and Derrida - Graham Coulter-Smith
Baudrillard, Art and Technology
Who Is the ‘French Mc Luhan'? - Gary Genosko
This Is Not a War - Paul Patton
After the Afterimage of Jean Baudrillard - Anne-Marie Willis
Photography, the Object, Ecology and Design
Baudrillard, Barthes, Burroughs and ‘Absolute' Photography - Nicholas Zurbrugg
Following Baudrillard - Richard G Smith
A Bibliobraphy of Writings on Jean Baudrillard