Badiou Reframed

Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts

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Alex Ling presents an original study of Alain Badiou’s philosophy in relation to the visual arts. He discusses the philosopher’s key concepts of being and appearing, truth, event and subject with reference to a range of artworks, among them Malevich’s White on White (1918), Rothko’s Ochre and Red on Red (1954), a still from Hitchcock’s film Suspicion (1941), and Banksy’s Untitled (2005) on the West Bank Wall in Palestine.

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