Emma & Edvard looking sideways: loneliness and the cinematic

AUTEUR(S): Mieke Bal.

TAAL: Engels.
UITGEVER: Mercatorfonds.
JAAR: 2017.
PAGINA’S: 275.
DRUK: Eerste editie.
FORMAAT: 270 x 240 x mm.
GEWICHT: 1290 gram.
STAAT: Nieuw (New).
UITVOERING: Paperback / zachte kaft / gelijmd.
ISBN/EAN: 9789462301757.

BESCHRIJVING

Two true masters come face to face when the works of Edvard Munch are juxtaposed against Gustave Flauberts groundbreaking novel Madame Bovary.
For the first time, Edvard Munchs art is presented together with an elaborate video installation. Madame B (2014) was created by Michelle Williams Gamaker and the internationally acclaimed cultural theorist, artist, and curator Mieke Bal.
In this compelling book Mieke Bal explores the double theme of social loneliness and the cinematic mode of expression. Loneliness is often caused by a denial of communication, signified by the socially clumsy mode of «looking sideways». The author explores the cinematic aspects present in Munchs still images as well as Flauberts pre-cinematic novel, and combines contemporary art theory with her own idiosyncratic way of looking at art – directly and closely. The reader is made to reflect upon how we view each other in social situations and question what happens when we are denied visual dialogue.