By Marcia Pointon
ISBN-10: 1780230419
ISBN-13: 9781780230412
In Portrayal and the hunt for id, Marcia Pointon investigates how we view and comprehend portraiture as a style, and the way pics functionality as works of art inside social and political networks. Likeness isn't an easy subject as we hardly have the topic of a portrait as some degree of comparability. that includes standard canonical pictures works in addition to little-known works, Portrayal seeks to unsettle notions of portraiture as an paintings of conference, a reassuring mirrored image of social realities. Readers are as an alternative invited to contemplate how id is produced pictorially, and the place likeness is registered except in a face. In exploring those concerns, the writer addresses wide-ranging difficulties reminiscent of the development of masculinity in gown, representations of slaves, and self-portraiture relating to mortality.
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