Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2001. First edition. 134pp; color illus. Black cloth; dust jacket. Mild toning to edges of leaves, else fine in a jacket with light crumpling at spine ends.
A book-length meditation on the Louise Bourgeois' installation Spider (1997), over the course of whose ten chapters theorist and critic Bal "offers a theoretical model for analyzing art "out of context" (jacket flap).
