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Mieke 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 Contents

Notes 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

About Mieke Bal

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      Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Published 21 November 2008
      ISBN-13 9781405186568
      978-1405186568
      ISBN-10 1405186569
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      Theory of art

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Mieke 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 Contents

      Notes 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

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