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About Meike Bal
Deborah . Ed(S): Cherry
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Paperback. 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. Editor(s): Cherry, Deborah. Series: Art History Special Issues. Num Pages: 200 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 248 x 176 x 11. Weight in Grams: 520.
A collection of essays celebrating Mieke Bal - one of Europe’s foremost scholars in art history and visual studies, with a stellar international reputation.
A collection of essays celebrating Mieke Bal - one of Europe’s foremost scholars in art history and visual studies, with a stellar international reputation.
- Brings together contributions by senior and younger scholars in the fields of art history and visual studies who reflect on Mieke Bal’s writings and art practice, assessing her contribution and legacies
- The first collection to consider her writing and art in depth, and to develop and extend her thinking in substantial ways
- Themes include some of Bal’s most important ideas and concepts in the visual field, such as the theoretical object, preposterous history, narrativity, vision and the ... Read more
- The essays consider historical art – the Sistine chapel, Renaissance altar paintings, and watercolours—alongside more recent film, photography, graffiti, interactive immersive environments, online performance, and areas of visual interest often positioned outside the pages of art history
- While Bal has, unsurprisingly perhaps, become a key figure in the debates between art and visual culture, the extraordinarily wide range of visual materials collected here speaks of her path-breaking movement between the visual registers of high art and popular cultures, her resistance to clear-cut distinctions between image and word
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Series
Art History Special Issues
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United States
ISBN
9781405186568
SKU
V9781405186568
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About Deborah . Ed(S): Cherry
Deborah Cherry is Professor of Contemporary and Modern Art at the University of Amsterdam.
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