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Book SynopsisMieke Bal is a leading scholar in art history and visual studies, with an international reputation in the English-speaking world. About Mieke Bal provides the first sustained scholarly assessment of Bal's writings in art history, visual studies, and critical theory.
Table of ContentsNotes on contributors vi
1 Conversation pieces: about Mieke Bal 1
Deborah Cherry
2 Piecemeal translation 7
Murat Aydemir
3 Time of history and time out of history: the Sistine Chapel as ‘theoretical object’ 26
Giovanni Careri
4 Reading the Annunciation 49
Hanneke Grootenboer
5 Visual archives as preposterous history 64
Ernst van Alphen
6 What does a woman want? Art investigating death in Charlotte Salomon’s Leben? oder Theater? 83
Griselda Pollock
7 Reading, writing, filming, dreaming, dressing 106
Michael Ann Holly and Mieke Bal
8 Killing kool: the graffiti museum 118
Sonja Neef
9 Aesthetics of intermediality 132
Jill Bennett
10 Je vous 151
Kaja Silverman
Selected bibliography 168
Index 185
