“mieke bal”

The sculptor Louise Bourgeois is best known for her monumental abstract sculptures, one of the most striking of which is the installation "Spider" (1997). Too vast in scale to be viewed all at once, this elusive structure resists simple narration. It fits both no genre and all of them--architecture,... More

One of the first female artists to achieve recognition in her own time, Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653) became instantly popular in the 1970s when feminist art historians "discovered" her and argued vehemently for a place for her in the canon of Italian baroque painters. Featured alongside her fat... More

When Mieke Bal reread the story of Joseph and Potiphar's wife as an adult, she was struck by differences between her childhood memories of a moral tale and what she read today. In "Loving Yusuf," Bal seeks to resolve this clash between memory and text, using the same story, in which Joseph spurns th... More

Mieke Bal shows how central to the study of culture are acts of exposure-of presenting, revealing, laying bare the 'truth' of the cultural objects one analyzes. Whether what is placed on public view is a picture, a poem, or another scholar's point of view, the rhetoric of persuasion in the humanitie... More

The Mottled Screen studies a great literary work that cannot be confined to language alone, even though it consists exclusively of words: Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. The author offers a sustained "visual" reading of Proust's masterpiece, pointing out its visual strategies of representation,... More