Moments of Meaning-Making: On Anachronism, Becoming, and Conceptualizing

From a major figure in feminist cultural theory, a deep abecedarian reflection on a lifetime of art and analysis

Dutch theorist and video artist Mieke Bal is well known for her specific ways of "deep reading" works by artists such as Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Louise Bourgeois and Nalini Malani. She intertwines her research with various disciplines, including contemporary and 19th-century literature, psychoanalysis, gender studies, philosophy and biblical studies, and she has always approached h...