Het geel van Marcel Proust: Over denkbeelden en beelddenken

Mieke Bal

Uitgeverij Vantilt, 2019

24,50

Images activate our thinking and thus result in ideas. At the intersection of past and present, Mieke Bal searches in Marcel Proust’s The Yellow for the relevance of art for current questions and problems. In this quest we meet both literary and visual artworks, both old masters and contemporary artists.

Through Proust and Flaubert, Munch and Bourgeois, the Bible and the Quran, the reader is invited to rethink history and anachronism, biography and character, rhythm and space, love and domination. The contribution of the media in which the works are contained also plays a role: the photographic, the cinematic and the worrying with thick paint – it is all part of what makes us think.

Marcel Proust’s yellow is a plea for recognizing the importance of the ideas we form when looking at images. Time and again a detail, a peculiarity or an apparent imperfection seems to offer an entrance to “seeing sense”. That is image thinking. IN DUTCH

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ISBN: 9789460044670

323 pages, 22,1 x 14 cm, illustrated, paperback, Dutch