Image-Thinking : : Artmaking as Cultural Analysis / / Mieke Bal.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Architecture and Design 2022
• VerfasserIn: Bal, Mieke,
• MitwirkendeR: Mitchell, W. J. T.,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Refractions
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (512 p.) :; 100 colour illustrations 100 colour illustrations

Art making as thinkingProposes a new model of synthesis of creative and intellectual work that will benefit practitioners, students and scholars across the humanities and social sciencesMerges theoretical and practical considerations in innovative and empowering waysClarifies difficult concepts through accounts of practice including trauma, agency, identity and affectCloses with a discussion of cultural memoryIncludes 10 in-depth case studies of films made over 20 years where each case study integrates concrete analysis with theoretical reflectionIn this rich, highly illustrated book, Mieke Bal takes us on a journey through the range of her work, using the concept of image-thinking as a point of connection between cultural analysis and artistic practice. Sharing a lifetime of experience of writing about art, making films and installations, as well as curating exhibitions, she shows us how these may be brought into dialogue with insights from theory.Bal teaches us how to think with images, but also how to write and think – as artists and writers – about our own creative work. This is Mieke Bal at her most personal and her best.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Series Editor’s Preface -- Author’s Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue: Iconomania – On the Thinking-Image and Madness -- 1. Introduction: Making as Thinking, and vice versa -- Part I: Keys to Intermediality -- 2. Time-Space: Spatialising Film -- 3. Who Speaks the Film, in Documentaries? A Thousand and One Voices -- 4. Multi-tentacled Time: Contemporaneity, Heterochrony, Anachronism for Pre-posterous History -- 5. Making Up, Making As: Fiction and/in/with Reality -- Part II: Special Issues, Special Pleading -- 6. Showing Trauma? Difficulty and Necessity -- 7. Agency, Facing -- 8. Cultural Citizenship vs Identity -- 9. Affect as an Artistic-Political Strategy -- 10. By Way of Conclusion – For Memory: Dis-remembered, Mis-remembered -- Author’s Filmography -- References -- Selective Index of Names and Titles -- Selective Index of Terms and Concepts