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Informationen zum Autor Deborah Cherry is Professor of Contemporary and Modern Art at the University of Amsterdam. Klappentext Mieke Bal is a leading scholar in art history and visual studies, with an international reputation in the English-speaking world. Recognised as one of the most innovative and distinctive thinkers in critical theory, her work is also widely read in translation. The author of many prize-winning and acclaimed studies, Bal's innovative approaches have had a profound and lasting impact on the study of the art and visual culture. history of art and visual studies.About Mieke Bal provides the first sustained scholarly assessment of Bal's writings in art history, visual studies and critical theory. With contributions by distinguished senior scholars and stellar younger writers, About Mieke Bal considers Bal's writings in depth, developing and extending her thinking in exciting and provocative ways, and providing enlightening reflection on many of her most important ideas and concepts. At the centre of the book is a conversation between Mieke Bal and Michael Ann Holly that reflects on Bal's characteristic entanglement of the professional, the familial, and the political, identifying a key characteristic - 'restlessless' - which has yielded Bal's extraordinarily wide-ranging interests across the humanities.Well-known for Reading Rembrandt, Beyond the Word-Image Opposition (1991) and Quoting Caravaggio: Contemporary Art, Preposterous History (Chicago, 1999), this collection considers the art of the past alongside more recent film, photography, graffiti, interactive immersive environments, online performance, and areas of visual interest often positioned outside the pages of art history. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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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1. Conversation Pieces: About Mieke Bal: Deborah Cherry (University of Amsterdam)..
2. Piecemeal Translation: Murat Aydemir (University of Amsterdam)..
3.Time of History and Time out of History: The Sistine Chapel as 'Theoretical Object': Giovanni Careri (École des Hautes études en Sciences Sociales, Paris).
4. Reading the Annunciation: Hanneke Grootenboer (University of Amsterdam).
5. Visual Archives as Preposterous History: Ernst van Alphen (Leiden University)..
6. Art Investigating Death in Charlotte Salomon's Leben? Oder Theater?: Griselda Pollock (University of Leeds)..
7. Reading, Writing, Filming, Dreaming, Dressing: Michael Ann Holly (Clarke Art Institute and Williams College) and Mieke Bal.
8. Killing Kool: The Graffiti Museum: Sonja Neef (Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany).
9. Aesthetics of Intermediality: Jill Bennett (University of New South Wales).
10. Je Vous: Kaja Silverman (University of California, Berkeley).
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