A feminist literary theorist; specialist in Rembrandt; and a scholar with a knack for reading Old Testament stories; Mieke Bal weaves a tapestry of signs and meanings that enrich our senses. Her subject is the act of showing; the gesture of exposing to view. In a museum; for example; the object is on display; made visually available. "Thats how it is;" the display proclaims. But who says so?Bals subjects are displays from the American Museum of Natural History; paintings by such figures as Courbet; Caravaggio; Artemisia Gentileschi; and Rembrandt; as well as works by twentieth-century artists; and such literary texts as Shakespeares Rape of Lucrece.
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