Showing papers by "Mieke Bal published in 1995"
TL;DR: The authors make the workings of culture understandable through interdisciplinary analysis, demonstrating what the point of ''theory'' is for the practice of the analysis of culture, and present a collection of essays that make the inner workings of a culture understandable.
Abstract: This collection of essays aims to make the workings of culture understandable through interdisciplinary analysis, demonstrating what the point of \"theory\" is for the practice of the analysis of culture. The contributors include Parveen Adams, Jane Beckett and Griselda Pollock.
27 citations
01 Jan 1995
TL;DR: Two groups of figures represented in ‘Rembrandt’1: nude, often mature, women and blind old men; two viewing positions distinguished in modern theory: the gaze and the glance; two gendered positions distinguished by Western culture: women as objects of looking, men as subjects of looking as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Two groups of figures represented in ‘Rembrandt’1: nude, often mature, women and blind old men; two viewing positions distinguished in modern theory: the gaze and the glance; two gendered positions distinguished by Western culture: women as objects of looking, men as subjects of looking; two gendered feelings distinguished by psychoanalysis: fear and envy; two arts, two media, two semiotic systems distinguished by Western academia: textuality and vision; two ways of processing these: reading and looking; two paradigms of interpretation: the verbal one, based on Jakobsonian ideal, mutual communication, and the visual one, based on one-sided, objectifying voyeurism; is there life beyond binary thinking?
10 citations
01 Jan 1995
TL;DR: This paper explored the implications of the story of Judith for modern Western epistemology through close readings of a number of Renaissance paintings on Judith by Caravaggio and Artemesia Gentileschi.
Abstract: The story of Judith is one of those biblical stories that Western culture has been eager to adopt. It is an exciting story because Judith is a national heroine, but frightening for men, using her sexual attraction to lure her foe. Owing to the conflict of loyalties the story poses, it was often used in the history of art and literature to project misogyny and gynophobia. In this paper an attempt is made to see the story as intriguing, indeed important, for reasons that are not contingent upon the distribution of loyalties. Instead, the story's ambiguities and questionings concern issues of knowledge: certainty and perception, clarity and objectivity are challenged. Starting from the biblical phrase 'and his head was missing', the implications of the story for modern Western epistemology are explored through close readings of a number of Renaissance paintings on Judith by Caravaggio and Artemesia Gentileschi.
6 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, cultural studies and philosophy is studied in the context of philosophy, and the authors present a survey of the literature on this topic. pp. 93-117, this paper.
Abstract: (1995). Cultural studies and philosophy. Parallax: Vol. 1, Cultural Studies and Philosophy, pp. 93-117.
1 citations