About Mieke Bal

Notes on contributors vi

1 Conversation pieces: about Mieke Bal 1
Deborah Cherry

2 Piecemeal translation 7
Murat Aydemir

3 Time of history and time out of history: the Sistine Chapel as ‘theoretical object’ 26
Giovanni Careri

4 Reading the Annunciation 49
Hanneke Grootenboer

5 Visual archives as preposterous history 64
Ernst van Alphen

6 What does a woman want? Art investigating death in Charlotte Salomon’s Leben? oder Theater? 83
Griselda Pollock

7 Reading, writing, filming, dreaming, dressing 106
Michael Ann Holly and Mieke Bal

8 Killing kool: the graffiti museum 118
Sonja Neef

9 Aesthetics of intermediality 132
Jill Bennett

10 Je vous 151
Kaja Silverman

Selected bibliography 168

Index 185