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Emma and Edvard Looking Sideways Loneliness and the Cinematic
ISBN: PB: 9780300229110, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, March 2017
304 pp., 26.7x24.1 cm, 115 colour illus.
In this compelling publication, two masters come face-to-face when the works of Edvard Munch are juxtaposed against Gustave Flaubert's groundbreaking novel "Madame Bovary". Munch's art is presented in stills taken from an elaborate video installation...
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£50,00
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Of What One Cannot Speak Doris Salcedo's Political Art
ISBN: HB: 9780226035789, University of Chicago Press, January 2011
296 pp., 23.4x18.3 cm, 31 halftones, 28 colour illus.
Doris Salcedo, a Colombian-born artist, addresses the politics of memory and forgetting in work that embraces fraught situations in dangerous places. Noted critic and theorist Mieke Bal narrates between the disciplines of contemporary culture in orde...
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Sleeping Beauty A One-Artist Dictionary
ISBN: HB: 9780226035529, University of Chicago Press, December 2008
136 pp., 29.2x23.9 cm, 33 colour plates
The dictionary. The ubiquitous high-gloss fashion ad. The fraught relationship between artist and critic".Sleeping Beauty" ties these disparate strands of our everyday lives together only to strip away everything we thought we knew about each of them...
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£34,50
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Loving Yusuf Conceptual Travels from Present to Past
ISBN: PB: 9780226035871, ISBN: HB: 9780226035864, University of Chicago Press, July 2008
256 pp., 21x14 cm, 6 halftones
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 tex...
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£56,00
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Artemisia Files Artemisia Gentileschi for Feminists and Other Thinking People
ISBN: PB: 9780226035826, University of Chicago Press, December 2006
245 pp., 19.4x13.1 cm, 44 halftones
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 It...
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£21,00
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Mieke Bal Reader
ISBN: PB: 9780226035857, ISBN: HB: 9780226035840, University of Chicago Press, May 2006
496 pp., 23x15 cm, 40 halftones, 2 tables
Mieke Bal has had a significant impact on every field she has touched, from Old Testament scholarship and narratology to critical methods and visual culture. This brilliant and controversial intellectual invariably performs a high-wire act at the poi...
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£34,50
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£74,00
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Louise Bourgeois' Spider The Architecture of Art-Writing
ISBN: HB: 9780226035758, University of Chicago Press, June 2001
88 pp., 22x16.8 cm, 25 colour illus.
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...
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£37,00
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Death and Dissymmetry The Politics of Coherence in the Book of Judges
ISBN: PB: 9780226035550, ISBN: HB: 9780226035543, University of Chicago Press, January 1989
319 pp., 23x15 cm
Combining literary criticism and feminist analysis, "Death and Dissymmetry" radically reinterprets not only the Book of Judges but also the tradition of its reception and understanding in the West. In Mieke Bal's account, Judges documents the Israeli...
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£97,00
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