Double Exposures : The Practice of Cultural Analysis

ISBN-13: 9780415917032 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 352 str.

Mieke Bal;Mieke Bal

Opis

Feminist literary theorist, specialist in Rembrandt, and a scholar of the Old Testament stories, Mieke Bal considers the signs and meanings that enrich our senses. Her subject is the act of showing, the gesture of exposing to view. In a museum, for example, the object is on display, made visually available. Thats how it is, the display proclaims. But who says so? Bal's subjects are displays from the American Museum of Natural History, paintings by such figures as Courbet, Caravaggio, Artemisia Gentileschi, and Rembrandt, as well as works by 20th century artists, and such literary texts as Shakespeare's Rape of Lucrece .

Spis treści

Telling, showing, showing off; the value factory; the talking museum; museumtalk; first person, second person, same person; a postcard from the edge; the story of W 8 - his master's eye; head-hunting.

O autorze

Mieke Bal