Quoting Caravaggio
Subtitle: contemporary art, preposterous history
By: Mieke Bal.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
Subjects: Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da, 1573-1610 -- Criticism and interpretation; Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Themes, motives; Art, Baroque -- Influence; Artists -- Psychology
Description: "Mieke Bal's primary object of investigation in Quoting Caravaggio is not the great seventeenth-century painter, but rather the issue of temporality in art. In order to retheorize linear notions of influence in cultural production, Bal analyzes the productive relationship between Caravaggio and a number of late-twentieth-century artists who "quote" the baroque master in their own works.

These artists include Andres Serrano, Carrie Mae Weems, Ken Aptekar, David Reed, and Ana Mendieta, among others."--BOOK JACKET. "Quoting Caravaggio is at once a meditation on history as creative, nonlinear process; a study of the work of Caravaggio and the Baroque; and, not least, a critical exposition of contemporary artistic representation and practice."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-285) and index.