Double Exposures

<p>A feminist literary theorist specialist in Rembrandt and a scholar with a knack for reading Old Testament stories Mieke Bal weaves a tapestry of signs and meanings that enrich our senses. Her subject is the act of showing the gesture of exposing to view. In a museum for example the object is on display made visually available. That's how it is the display proclaims. But who says so?<br>Bal's subjects are displays from the American Museum of Natural History paintings by such figures as Courbet Caravaggio Artemisia Gentileschi and Rembrandt as well as works by twentieth-century artists and such literary texts as Shakespeare's <em>Rape of Lucrece</em>.</p>