Summary
Mieke Bal has had a significant impact on every field she has touched, from Old Testament scholarship and narratology to critical methods and visual culture. This brilliant and controversial intellectual invariably performs a high-wire act at the point where critical issues and methods intersect—or collide. She is deeply interested in the problems of cultural analysis across a range of disciplines. A Mieke Bal Reader brings together for the first time a representative collection of her…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780226035857 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0226035859 |
| Author: | Mieke Bal |
| Publisher: | The University of Chicago Press |
| Imprint: | University of Chicago Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 408 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 15 May 2006 |
| Weight: | 765g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 17mm x 3mm |
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“Quoting Caravaggio “Stimulating and intelligently written…. [Quoting Caravaggio] is very interesting to read, and is a useful additional example of contemporary artists’ and critics’ identification with the Baroque as a world of sensuality in pre-Enlightenment modernity.” - Art Book Louise Bourgeois’ “Spider” “Bal is exceptionally skilled at close reading, and the subjects she chooses to take on are commensurate in complexity to that skill.” - Common Knowledge”
About The Author
Mieke Bal
Mieke Bal was a founding director of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis and is an Academy Professor in the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has been the A. D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. She is the author of, among other books, Death and Dissymmetry: The Politics of Coherence in the Book of Judges; Louise Bourgeois’ “Spider”: The Architecture of Art-Writing; and Quoting Caravaggio: Contemporary Art, Preposterous History, all published by the University of Chicago Press. She is also a filmmaker.
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