Mieke Bal is professor in and cofounder of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam. Her previous books include Double Exposures: The Subject of Cultural Analysis; Quoting Caravaggio: Contemporary Art, Preposterous History; and Louise Bourgeois' Spider: The Architecture of Art-Writing, the last two published by the University of Chicago Press.
"The Artemisia Files makes an important contribution to the current
debates surrounding Artemisia Gentileschi. This collection of
essays has a potential audience not only of scholars in art
history, gender and women's studies, and cultural history but also
of the more general public. It brings together a group of noted
scholars whose work has energized and charged the entire discipline
of art history."--Mary Sheriff, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill
"An engaging and provocative collection of essays about the now
infamous Italian woman artist, Artemesia Gentileschi. Responding to
the outpouring of recent exhibitions, articles, monographs and even
a film focusing on and to some degree, sensationalizing the life
and works of this artist, the pieces in The Artemisia Files try to
shed light on this talented painter's actual accomplishments and to
deconstruct the myths that surround her art and work. Each of the
six authors directly confronts both contemporary and historical
discourses on hotly debated issues of attribution and
interpretation and attempts the difficult task of divorcing the
skilled artist from the sexualized or scandalous woman."--Linda
Nochlin, The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
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