ENDLESS ANDNESS

In Endless Andness, Mieke Bal pioneers a new understanding of the political potential of abstract art which does not passively yield its meaning to the viewer but creates it anew - an art perceived not only through the retina but experienced viscerally. In this bo ok, the third of her companion volumes on art's political agency, Bal explores perception through an intense engagement with the wor k of Belgian sculptor Ann Veronica Janssens. In a series of vividly-recalled encounters with Janssen's practice over a number of yea rs, Balp...[Llegir més]