Portraiture : facing the subject /
Portraiture : facing the subject /
edited and introduced by Joanna Woodall.
- xv, 282 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Critical introductions to art .
- Critical introductions to art. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Introduction: facing the subject -- The Sexual Self -- Homosociality and erotics in Italian Renaissance portraiture -- The ideology of feminine 'virtue': the vestal virgin in French eighteenth-century allegorical portraiture -- The Social Self -- Sovereign bodies: the reality of status in seventeenth-century Dutch portraiture -- Medical men 1780-1820 -- Likeness and Identity -- Photographic likeness -- Photographic portraiture in central India in the 1980s and 1990s -- The Portrait Transaction -- She's got the look! Eighteenth-century female portrait painters and the psychology of a potentially 'dangerous employment' -- Inscribing alterity: transactions of self and other in Miro self-portraits -- Identity and Truth -- Kahnweiler's Picasso; Picasso's Kahnweiler -- Rembrandt / Genet / Derrida -- The Authority of Portraiture -- Facing the past and present: the National Portrait Gallery and the search for 'authentic' portraiture -- The portrait's dispersal: concepts of representation and subjectivity in contemporary portraiture -- What is a Portrait? -- Pre-figured features: a view from the Papua New Guinea highlands -- Eclectic bibliography -- Index. Pt. I. 1. 2. Pt. II. 3. 4. Pt. III. 5. 6. Pt. IV. 7. 8. Pt. V. 9. 10. Pt. VI. 11. 12. Pt. VII. 13.
"Portraiture occupies a central position in the history of Western art. It has been the most popular genre of painting and has been crucial to the construction and articulation of individualism. Despite this, its status within academic art theory is uncertain and there is no adequate critical analysis of the subject available. With an international team of specialists, including Patricia Simmons, Ludmilla Jordanova, John Gage, Marcia Pointon and Ernst Van Alphen, this volume provides a much-needed, comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the major issues in the history of portraiture. The book's chapters are structured chronologically, progressing from the Italian Renaissance to Dutch seventeenth-century portraiture and on to Picasso, surrealism, Lucian Freud and Cindy Sherman. Each chapter examines the key developments in portraiture within each specific period, complete with analytical subheadings, making this an ideal book for students."--Publisher description.
0719046122 9780719046124 0719046149 9780719046148
96016844
Portraits
Identity (Psychology) in art
N7575 / .W66 1997
704.942
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Introduction: facing the subject -- The Sexual Self -- Homosociality and erotics in Italian Renaissance portraiture -- The ideology of feminine 'virtue': the vestal virgin in French eighteenth-century allegorical portraiture -- The Social Self -- Sovereign bodies: the reality of status in seventeenth-century Dutch portraiture -- Medical men 1780-1820 -- Likeness and Identity -- Photographic likeness -- Photographic portraiture in central India in the 1980s and 1990s -- The Portrait Transaction -- She's got the look! Eighteenth-century female portrait painters and the psychology of a potentially 'dangerous employment' -- Inscribing alterity: transactions of self and other in Miro self-portraits -- Identity and Truth -- Kahnweiler's Picasso; Picasso's Kahnweiler -- Rembrandt / Genet / Derrida -- The Authority of Portraiture -- Facing the past and present: the National Portrait Gallery and the search for 'authentic' portraiture -- The portrait's dispersal: concepts of representation and subjectivity in contemporary portraiture -- What is a Portrait? -- Pre-figured features: a view from the Papua New Guinea highlands -- Eclectic bibliography -- Index. Pt. I. 1. 2. Pt. II. 3. 4. Pt. III. 5. 6. Pt. IV. 7. 8. Pt. V. 9. 10. Pt. VI. 11. 12. Pt. VII. 13.
"Portraiture occupies a central position in the history of Western art. It has been the most popular genre of painting and has been crucial to the construction and articulation of individualism. Despite this, its status within academic art theory is uncertain and there is no adequate critical analysis of the subject available. With an international team of specialists, including Patricia Simmons, Ludmilla Jordanova, John Gage, Marcia Pointon and Ernst Van Alphen, this volume provides a much-needed, comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the major issues in the history of portraiture. The book's chapters are structured chronologically, progressing from the Italian Renaissance to Dutch seventeenth-century portraiture and on to Picasso, surrealism, Lucian Freud and Cindy Sherman. Each chapter examines the key developments in portraiture within each specific period, complete with analytical subheadings, making this an ideal book for students."--Publisher description.
0719046122 9780719046124 0719046149 9780719046148
96016844
Portraits
Identity (Psychology) in art
N7575 / .W66 1997
704.942