First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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.

When Mieke Bal reread the story of Joseph and Potiphar’s wife as an adult, she was struck by differences between her childhood memories of a moral tale and what she read today.

This book documents a series of conversations on the art of teaching between cultural theorist Mieke Bal and Jeroen Lutters.

Bringing together different understandings of 'figure' from form to character, Bal examines the syntax of the exhibition and its ability to bring together installations, the work itself, the physical and ontological thresholds of the ...

Yet Bal draws out even deeper responses to the work, questioning the nature of political art altogether and introducing concepts of metaphor, time, and space in order to contend with Salcedo’s powerful sculptures and installations.

This short, beautiful book offers both a theoretical model for analyzing art "out of context" and a meditation on a key work by one of the most engaging artists of our era.

This book aims to address the basic questions in semiotics, the theory of signs. What is semiotics? How is it used? how is it taught?

In short, this is a framing of images by means of grouping them. As the author of this book, I am also the "curator" of these images, because I group them according to my view, for which the artists are not responsible."--Page 9.

In this book, the third of her companion volumes on art's political agency, Bal explores perception through an intense engagement with the work of Belgian sculptor Ann Veronica Janssens.