Double Exposures
The Practice of Cultural Analysis
Published on 10. September 2012
352 pages
978-1-135-21051-9 (ISBN)
Description
A feminist literary theorist, specialist in Rembrandt, and a scholar with a knack for reading Old Testament stories, Mieke Bal weaves a tapestry of 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. "That's 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 twentieth-century artists, and such literary texts as Shakespeare's Rape of Lucrece.
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 twentieth-century artists, and such literary texts as Shakespeare's Rape of Lucrece.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
File size
6,76 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-135-21051-9 (9781135210519)
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06/1996
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06/1996
1st Edition
Routledge
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Person
Mieke Bal
Content
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.
