About Mieke Bal

About Mieke Bal provides a sustained scholarly assessment of Bal's writings in art history, visual studies and critical theory. The collection considers Bal's writings in depth, developing and extending her thinking, and providing enlightening reflection on many of her most important ideas and concepts. The essays consider Bal's approaches to the art of the past alongside more recent film, photography, graffiti, interactive immersive environments, online performance, and several ofher recent films. Essays consider historical art such as the Sistine Chapel and the watercolours of Charlotte Salomon, alongside discussions of intermediality in art by Gabriel Orozco, Candice Breitz, Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno, and reflections on works by Christian Boltanski, Ydessa Hendeles, and Peter Forgacs in relation to the archival medium in Holocaust studies. Attention is given to graffiti, interactive immersive environments, online performance, and areas of visual interest often positioned outside the pages of art history.

The collection includes an edited conversation between Mieke Bal and Michael Ann Holly, entitled 'Reading, Writing, Filming, Dreaming, Dressing'.

First published as a Special Edition of Art History, 30:3, 2007. ' Conversation Pieces: About Mieke Bal' by Deborah Cherry. pp. 301-306.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8365.2007.00546.x/abstract

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