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Author |
: Sarah Blackwood |
Publisher |
: UNC Press Books |
Total Pages |
: 217 |
Release |
: 2019-10-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781469652603 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1469652609 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Portrait's Subject by : Sarah Blackwood
Between the invention of photography in 1839 and the end of the nineteenth century, portraiture became one of the most popular and common art forms in the United States. In The Portrait's Subject, Sarah Blackwood tells a wide-ranging story about how images of human surfaces came to signal expressions of human depth during this era in paintings, photographs, and illustrations, as well as in literary and cultural representations of portrait making and viewing. Combining visual theory, literary close reading, and archival research, Blackwood examines portraiture's changing symbolic and aesthetic practices, from daguerreotype to X-ray. Portraiture, the book argues, was a provocative art form used by writers, artists, and early psychologists to imagine selfhood as hidden, deep, and in need of revelation, ideas that were then taken up by the developing discipline of psychology. The Portrait's Subject reveals the underappreciated connections between portraiture's representations of the material human body and developing modern ideas about the human mind. It encouraged figures like Frederick Douglass, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Thomas Eakins, Harriet Jacobs, and Henry James to reimagine how we might see inner life, offering a rich array of metaphors and aesthetic approaches that helped reconfigure the relationship between body and mind, exterior and interior. In the end, Blackwood shows how nineteenth-century psychological discourse developed as much through aesthetic fabulation as through scientific experimentation.
Author |
: Chuck Close |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 794 |
Release |
: 1997 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015045655860 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Portraits Speak by : Chuck Close
Contains transcripts of conversations between artist Chuck Close and twenty-seven of his fellow artists who were also subjects of his paintings.
Author |
: Robert Snell |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 316 |
Release |
: 2018-03-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780429917400 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0429917406 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis Portraits of the Insane by : Robert Snell
In the early 1820s, in the gloomy aftermath of the 1789 Revolution and the Napoleonic wars, the French Romantic painter Theodore Gericault (1791-1824) made five portraits of patients in an asylum or clinic. No depictions of madness before or since can compare with them for humanity, straightforwardness and immediacy. The portraits challenge us to find responses in ourselves to the face and the embodied mysteries of the other person, and to our own internal (unsconscious, disavowed) otherness: in this sense, Gericault was a "painter-analyst". The challenge could not be more urgent, in our world of suspicion of the stranger, and of the medicalisation of madness. The book sketches the history of this last process, from the Enlightenment through to the Revolution and its public health policies, to the birth of the asylum in its interface with the penal system. But there was also a new medico-philosophical conviction that the mad were never wholly mad, and their suffering and disturbance might best be addressed through relationship and speech.
Author |
: Joanna Woodall |
Publisher |
: Manchester University Press |
Total Pages |
: 308 |
Release |
: 1997-03-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0719046149 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780719046148 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Portraiture by : Joanna Woodall
Portraiture, the most popular genre of painting, occupies a central position in the history of Western art. Despite this, its status within academic art theory is uncertain. This volume provides an introduction to major issues in its history.
Author |
: Sarah E. Betzer |
Publisher |
: University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages |
: 332 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0271048751 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780271048758 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ingres and the Studio by : Sarah E. Betzer
An exploration of the portrait art of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, focusing on his studio practice and his training of students.
Author |
: Catherine M. Soussloff |
Publisher |
: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 210 |
Release |
: 2006-10-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0822336707 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780822336709 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Subject in Art by : Catherine M. Soussloff
Argues that the modern subject did not emerge from psychoanalysis or existential philosophy but rather within early-twentieth-century Viennese portraiture.
Author |
: John HARVEY |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2021-11-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1910688967 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781910688960 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Subject of a Portrait by : John HARVEY
Author |
: Sheila Dillon |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 238 |
Release |
: 2006-04-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780521854986 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0521854989 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ancient Greek Portrait Sculpture by : Sheila Dillon
This book offers a new approach to the history of Greek portraiture by focusing on portraits without names. Comprehensively illustrated, it brings together a wide range of evidence that has never before been studied as a group. Sheila Dillon considers the few original bronze and marble portrait statues preserved from the Classical and Hellenistic periods together with the large number of Greek portraits known only through Roman 'copies'. In focusing on a series of images that have previously been ignored, Dillon investigates the range of strategies and modes utilized in these portraits to construct their subject's identity. Her methods undermine two basic tenets of Greek portraiture: first, that is was only in the late Hellenistic period, under Roman influence, that Greek portraits exhibited a wide range of styles, including descriptive realism; and second, that in most cases, one can easily tell a subject's public role - that is, whether he is a philosopher of an orator - from the visual traits used in this portrait. The sculptures studied here instead show that the proliferation of portrait styles takes place much earlier, in the late Classical period; and that the identity encoded in these portraits is much more complex and layered than has previously been realized. Despite the fact that these portraits lack the one feature most prized by scholars of ancient portraiture - a name - they are evidence of utmost importance for the history of Greek portraiture.
Author |
: Jennifer Van Horn |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 344 |
Release |
: 2022-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300257632 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300257635 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis Portraits of Resistance by : Jennifer Van Horn
A highly original history of American portraiture that places the experiences of enslaved people at its center This timely and eloquent book tells a new history of American art: how enslaved people mobilized portraiture for acts of defiance. Revisiting the origins of portrait painting in the United States, Jennifer Van Horn reveals how mythologies of whiteness and of nation building erased the aesthetic production of enslaved Americans of African descent and obscured the portrait's importance as a site of resistance. Moving from the wharves of colonial Rhode Island to antebellum Louisiana plantations to South Carolina townhouses during the Civil War, the book illuminates how enslaved people's relationships with portraits also shaped the trajectory of African American art post-emancipation. Van Horn asserts that Black creativity, subjecthood, viewership, and iconoclasm constituted instances of everyday rebellion against systemic oppression. Portraits of Resistance is not only a significant intervention in the fields of American art and history but also an important contribution to the reexamination of racial constructs on which American culture was built.
Author |
: Susan Sontag |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 224 |
Release |
: 1977 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCSC:32106010139787 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis On Photography by : Susan Sontag