The commitment to look

Journal of Visual Culture

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 145-162

  Bal, Mieke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

De skilling; Ethics of vision; Historicity; Word and image

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249002314     PISSN: 14704129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1470412905054671     Document Type: Article

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