Reading Rembrandt: Beyond the Word-Image Opposition (Amsterdam Academic Archive) - Softcover

Bal, Mieke

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9053568581 ISBN 13: 9789053568583

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, 2006

Synopsis

Reading Rembrandt: Beyond the Word-Image Opposition explores the potential for an interdisciplinary methodology between visual art and literature. In a series of close analyses of works by “Rembrandt” – works as we see them today, through all the ways of seeing and commenting that precede – and texts related to those works, Mieke Bal questions the traditional boundaries between literary and visual analysis. Bal also studies Rembrandt’s complex handling of gender and the representation of women in Rembrandt’s painting. The methods used in this study come from both in- and outside the history of art. They demonstrate the author’s sensitivity to the visual aspects of Rembrandt’s work as meaningful. The works by Rembrandt gain in depth and interest, but an original perspective of the role of visuality in our culture also emerges, which ultimately has consequences for our views of gender, the artists, and the act of reading.

About this title

Book Description:

This book explores the potential for interdisciplinary methodology between literature and visual art. The works by Rembrandt gain in depth and interest, but an original perspective of the role of visuality in our culture emerges, which ultimately has consequences for our views of gender, the artist, and the act of reading.

About the Author:

Mieke Bal is a Professor at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and is based at the University of Amsterdam.

About this edition

• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 9053568581
• ISBN 13: 9789053568583
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 518