Mieke De Bal (7 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Minor soiling on title page and contents page; all other pages clean and bright. Wrappers have light handling wear. Contents: Bal and Bryson, Semiotics and art history. Hamburger, A Liber Precum in Sélestat and the development of the illustrated prayer book in Germany. Colantuono, Dies Alconiae: the invention of Bellini's Feast of the Gods. Siry, Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple and architecture for liberal religion in Chicago, 1885-1909. Collins, Life magazine and the abstract expressionists, 1948-51: a historiographic study of a late Bohemian enterprise. de Caso, A phillogical imposture: Henri Jouin, interpreter of David d'Angers. Brown, Two new Degas letters in New Orleans. Reviews. 11.5" tall; 174 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 159 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. Richly illustrated with colour plates. *** "Balthasar Klossowski de Rola (1908-2001) was one of the most acclaimed and influential artists of the 20th century. In his formative years his art was sponsored by, among others, Henri Matisse, and later he was much admired by Picasso. This illustrated work provides a visual and narrative survey of the Balthus' body of work . . . Mieke Bal's analysis is focused in the eerie sense of very real and very unreal that the paintings emanate. She considers this the heart of Balthus's work. Bal argues that the paintings draw the viewer into a world we know not to exist. This canny fictionality makes allegations of erotic appropriation naive and censoring. Reducing Balthus's work to the paintings of nude adolescent girls is, moreover, ignoring his many works that are not in the least focused on this theme. Color, space, genres or history are some of the key concepts that the author put in the center of Balthus's work." - Publisher. Size: 4to.…

Rústica. Condition: NUEVO. 135 pages/páginas. Louise Bourgeois (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. English/Swedish/Portugese text. Many essays and colour illustrations. A pristine copy. 1st edition.

Paperback. Condition: New. 1.

Exh. cat. tent.; Rotterdam (Museum Boymans-van Beuningen) 1994; 52 pp.; exhibition catalogue with texts in English and Dutch by Hanneke de Man and Mieke Bal; Softcover; 27 x 22cm. [Art / Dutch artist [Nederlandse Kunstenaars] Exhibition ].

Paperback. Condition: New. 1.