Kristeva Reframed: Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts

by Estelle Barrett

For Kristeva, in a world immersed in readymade images, art or aesthetic experience is a practice that constitutes both a subject (a sense of self) and an object that is able to transform meaning and consciousness. 'Kristeva Reframed' examines key ideas in Kristeva's work to show how they are most relevant to artists, and how they can be applied in interpreting artworks. With examples from the paintings of Van Gogh and Picasso, the work of contemporary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845116607
• ISBN13: 9781845116606
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.9" x 6.8"