Abstract
On the basis of an experiment with and experience of making art as a mode of performing a cultural analysis of an object of cultural heritage — Miguel de Cervantes's world-wide known novel Don Quijote — in this article I explore the integration of what is now usually called "artistic research" with the historical genre of Denkbilder (Thought-Images). If done with precision and caution, this integration can yield a substantial innovation of the methodology of cultural analysis as well as of the practices of museum display, literary analysis, and audio-visual art-making. Most importantly, the project entails a revision of the much-abused concept of trauma, and suggestions for the way society can productively deal with traumatized people who seem "mad".
First Page
1
Last Page
16
Recommended Citation
Mieke, Bal. 2020. "Art Making as Analysis: Thought-Images and Image-Thinking." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 40, (4): pp.1-16. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol40/iss4/2
