Portraiture : facing the subject
Publisher's description: 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
Print Book, English, 1997
Manchester University Press : Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, Manchester, New York, 1997
Portrait
xv, 282 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780719046124, 9780719046148, 0719046122, 0719046149
34598060
Homosociality and erotics in Italian Renaissance portraiture / Patricia Simons
The ideology of feminine 'virtue' : the vestal virgin in French eighteenth-century allegorical portraiture / Kathleen Nicholson
Sovereign bodies : the reality of status in seventeenth-century Dutch portraiture / Joanna Woodall
Medical men 1780-1820 / Ludmilla Jordanova
Photographic likeness / John Gage
Photographic portraiture in central India in the 1980s and 1990s / Christopher Pinney
She's got the look! Eighteenth-century female portrait painters and psychology of a potentially 'dangerous employment' / Angela Rosenthal
Inscribing alterity : transactions of self and other in Miró self-portraits / David Lomas
Kahnweiler's Picasso ; Picasso's Kahnweiler / Marcia Pointin
Rembrandt / Genet / Derrida / Sarah Wilson
Facing the past and present : the National Portrait Gallery and the search for 'authentic' portraiture / Paul Barlow
The portrait's dispersal : concepts of representation and subjectivity in contemporary portraiture / Ernst Van Alphen
Pre-figured features : a view from the Papua New Guinea highlands / Marilyn Strathern