Overview
In this rich, highly illustrated book, Mieke Bal takes us on a journey through the range of her work, using the concept of image-thinking as a point of connection between cultural analysis and artistic practice. Sharing a lifetime of experience of writing about art, making films and installations, as well as curating exhibitions, she shows us how these may be brought into dialogue with insights from theory. Bal teaches us how to think with images, but also how to write and think as artists and writers about our own creative work. This is Mieke Bal at her most personal and her best.
Full Product Details
Author: Mieke Bal
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 9781474494229
ISBN 10: 1474494226
Pages: 512
Publication Date: 25 March 2022
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
"Astonishing, necessary, and beautifully written, Image-Thinking is a brilliant contribution to visual thought, art criticism and curatorial practice. An excellent book that teaches us how to think with images, but also how to write and reflect -as visual artists or writers- about our own works.-- ""Miguel �ngel Hern�ndez, University of Murcia"" Pictures, images, image-texts, representations, pathos-formulae, inscriptions--the theoretical journeys we have made in art history, film/cinema studies, visual studies and cultural analysis to Mieke Bal's concept and practice of image-thinking passes through a creatively and theoretically generative half-century transformed at every stage by her own astonishing intellect, fearless questioning and generative boundary-crossing. Embracing and transforming our uses of, and encounters with, video and digital moving image--in its portable and ubiquitous form, from its casual daily recording to its aesthetically daring deployment in contemporary artistic practice, Mieke Bal's traverse of analysis, film, affect and memory, becoming and wordlessness unsettles divisions. As she dances effortlessly between positions of maker and thinker, analyst and theorist, she creates the thinking image and asksus to see thought in/with/beyond the image. Image-thinking glories in its own contradiction of our tiresome divisions between image and text, narrative and scene, time and recurrence to unfold an amazing story of Mieke Bal's ever- astonishing creativity an exhibilarating intellectual audacity.-- ""Griselda Pollock, Professor Emerita, University of Leeds"""
Author Information
Mieke Bal, Professor Emerita of Literary Theory, University of Amsterdam.
