Emma and Edvard Looking Sideways: Loneliness and the Cinematic (Mercatorfonds (Yale))

by Mieke Bal

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In this compelling publication, two masters come face-to-face when the works of Edvard Munch are juxtaposed against Gustave Flaubert's groundbreaking novel Madame Bovary. Munch's art is presented in stills taken from an elaborate video installation, Madame B (2014), created by Michelle Williams Gamaker and the internationally acclaimed cultural theorist, video artist, and curator Mieke Bal. Emma and Edvard Looking Sideways: Loneliness and the Cinematic explores the filmic aspect of Munch's art by combining contemporary art theory with Bal's own idiosyncratic way of looking at art - directly and closely. The reader can reflect upon how we view each other in social situations and question what happens when we are denied visual dialogue.
  • ISBN10 0300229119
  • ISBN13 9780300229110
  • Publish Date 7 March 2017
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Yale University Press
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 304
  • Language English