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Mieke Bal

Quoting Caravaggio

Contemporary Art, Preposterous History

328 pages, 62 color plates, 25 halftones  8-3/4 x 9-1/2  © 1999

Cloth $50.00

ISBN: 9780226035567   Published August 1999

Paper $32.50

ISBN: 9780226035574   Published March 2001

Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Preposterous History
"Quoting ..."
Re-Visioning the Baroque
"... Caravaggio" (and Those Who Quote Him)
Meta-Baroque
Theoretical Objects and the Life of Ideas
1. Skin-Deep: A Baroque Point of View
A History by Default/The Fold
The Body Inside Out: Baroque Point of View
Folds That Matter
2. White History
White and the Mirror
Death and the Body
Nostalgia Isn't What It Used to Be
3. Reading Caravaggio: Basic Instincts and Their Discontents
Misfiring
Inside the Readable
Interpellation and Identity
4. Sighting Time
Time's Spurts of Blood
Tombstones, Gossip, and Stories of Origin
Visual Poetics
A Poetics of Vision
Playing the Game
Art Writing
5. Space, Inc.
The Matter with Semiosis
Killing Mirrors
The Index and Psychic Space
Deixis: A Special Pleading for the Orientation of the Index
Light and the Black Body
6. Second-Person Narrative
Sticky Images
Time Out
Nonfigurative Narrative
First Person, Second Person, Same Person
Time, in Two Episodes
Engaging Caravaggio
Light-Writing
The Sense of Not-Ending
Is That Narrative?
7. Mirrors of Nature
A Mirror with a Twist
Mirroring Constructivism
A Mirror with a Stain
A Mirror That Cuts
A Mirror with a Crack
Presences
Naturally Yours
8. Narcissus Now
Beyond Mapping
The Landscape in the Corner of Your Eye
Narcissus's Vision
The Mirror Cracked
Framing Vision
Afterword
References
Indexes

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