Michalle Gal
Michalle Gal is a professor of philosophy at Shenkar. Gal is the author of Visual Metaphors and Aesthetics: A Formalist Theory of Metaphor (2022) Aestheticism: Deep Formalism and the Emergence of Modernist Aesthetics (2015), and Introduction to Design Theory: Philosophy, Critique, History and Practice (2023). She is the editor of the special issues Art and Gesture (2014, Paragrana, De Gruyter), Visual Hybrids (2024, Poetics Today) and Design and its Relations (2025, Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics), and the author of numerous of essays in aesthetics, and philosophy of art and design, cognition and perception, and ontology.
Last updated on January 25th, 2026.