Reading Rembrandt : : Beyond the Word-Image Opposition / / Mieke Bal.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package Backfile 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Bal, Mieke,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2006]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Series: Amsterdam Academic Archive
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (518 p.)

Reading Rembrandt questions the traditional boundaries between literary and visual analysis with close, side-by-side readings of some of the Dutch master’s works alongside paintings of the same era whose attribution is still debated. A new understanding of the role of visuality in our culture emerges, one that makes significant inroads, most particularly, for the study of gender in Rembrandt’s work. Demonstrating acute sensitivity to Rembrandt’s art, acclaimed scholar and author Mieke Bal gives new depth to an old master, a perspective with vast consequences for our views of gender, the artist, and the act of reading.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface for the AAA-edition -- Reading "Rembrandt" -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Beyond The Word- Image Opposition -- 2. Visual Rhetoric: The Semiotics Of Rape -- 3. Visual Storytelling: Fathers And Sons And The Problem Of Myth -- 4. Between Focalization And Voyeurism: The Representation Of Vision -- 5. Recognition: Reading Icons, Seeing Stories -- 6. Textuality And Realism -- 7. Self-Reflection As A Mode Of Reading -- 8. Blindness Or Insight? Psychoanalysis And Visual Art -- 9. Blindness As Insight: The Powers Of Horror -- 10. Dead Flesh, Or The Smell Of Painting -- Notes -- References -- Index Of Names And Titles -- Index Of Terms