Picturing the Self : Changing Views of the Subject in Visual Culture

Name: Picturing the Self
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
SKU: 9781850434139
Price: 5050 KES
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ISBN: 9781850434139

by Gen Doy

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 1850434131

ISBN-13 9781850434139

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Imprint I.B. Tauris

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Sep 24th, 2004

Print length 304 Pages

Weight 434 grams

Dimensions 23.40 x 15.60 x 1.90 cms

Product Classification: Art treatments & subjects The visual, decorative or fine arts: treatments and subjects

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Arguing that the importance of subjectivity for art goes far beyond self-portraits, the author explores topics such as self-expression, the self, work and consumption.

Ideas of selfhood, from Descartes' theory of "I think therefore I am" to postmodern notions of the fragmented and de-centred self, have been crucial to the visual arts. Gen Doy explores this relationship, from Holbein's "Ambassadors" and the early modern period up to and beyond Marc Quinn's "Self" (Blood Head). Arguing that the importance of subjectivity for art goes far beyond self-portraits, she explores such topics as self-expression; the self, work and consumption; self-presentation; photography and the theatre of the self; the marginalized - beggars and asylum seekers - and "the real me". A wide range of artists, including Tracey Emin, Jeff Wall, Eugene Palmer and Karen Knorr, are discussed, as well as historical material from earlier periods.

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