Quoting Caravaggio Contemporary Art, Preposterous History

Name: Quoting Caravaggio Contemporary Art, Preposterous History
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ISBN: 9780226035567

ISBN-10: 0226035565

ISBN-13: 9780226035567

Edition: 74th 1999

Authors: Mieke Bal

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As period, as style, as sensibility, the Baroque remains elusive, its definition subject to dispute. This book is at once a meditation on history as a creative, nonlinear process, and a study of the work of Caravaggio and the Baroque.

Book details

List price: $59.00
Edition: 74th
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 8/1/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 328
Size: 8.75" wide x 9.50" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 2.992
Language: English

Mieke Bal is Academy Professor at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and a cofounder of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam. Her many books include Loving Yusuf: Conceptual Travels from Present to Past, also published by the University of Chicago Press.



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction


Preposterous History "Quoting ..." Re-Visioning the Baroque "... Caravaggio" (and Those Who Quote Him) Meta-Baroque Theoretical Objects and the Life of Ideas



Skin-Deep: A Baroque Point of View A History by Default/The Fold The Body Inside Out: Baroque Point of View Folds That Matter



White History White and the Mirror Death and the Body Nostalgia Isn't What It Used to Be



Reading Caravaggio: Basic Instincts and Their Discontents Misfiring Inside the Readable Interpellation and Identity



Sighting Time Time's Spurts of Blood Tombstones, Gossip, and Stories of Origin Visual Poetics A Poetics of Vision Playing the Game Art Writing



Space, Inc


The Matter with Semiosis Killing Mirrors The Index and Psychic Space Deixis: A Special Pleading for the Orientation of the Index Light and the Black Body



Second-Person Narrative Sticky Images Time Out Nonfigurative Narrative First Person, Second Person, Same Person Time, in Two Episodes Engaging Caravaggio Light-Writing The Sense of Not-Ending Is That Narrative?



Mirrors of Nature A Mirror with a Twist Mirroring Constructivism A Mirror with a Stain A Mirror That Cuts A Mirror with a Crack Presences Naturally Yours



Narcissus Now Beyond Mapping The Landscape in the Corner of Your Eye Narcissus's Vision The Mirror Cracked Framing Vision


Afterword


References


Indexes