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Portraiture; Facing the Subject
Portraiture; Facing the Subject, 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 uncert, Portraiture; Facing the Subject has a rating of 2.5 stars
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  • Portraiture; Facing the Subject
  • Written by author Joanna Woodall
  • Published by Manchester University Press, March 1997
  • 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 uncert
  • 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 uncert
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Preface
Introduction: facing the subject1
Pt. IThe Sexual Self
1Homosociality and erotics in Italian Renaissance portraiture29
2The ideology of feminine 'virtue': the vestal virgin in French eighteenth-century allegorical portraiture52
Pt. IIThe Social Self
3Sovereign bodies: the reality of status in seventeenth-century Dutch portraiture75
4Medical men 1780-1820101
Pt. IIILikeness and Identity
5Photographic likeness119
6Photographic portraiture in central India in the 1980s and 1990s131
Pt. IVThe Portrait Transaction
7She's got the look! Eighteenth-century female portrait painters and the psychology of a potentially 'dangerous employment'147
8Inscribing alterity: transactions of self and other in Miro self-portraits167
Pt. VIdentity and Truth
9Kahnweiler's Picasso; Picasso's Kahnweiler189
10Rembrandt / Genet / Derrida203
Pt. VIThe Authority of Portraiture
11Facing the past and present: the National Portrait Gallery and the search for 'authentic' portraiture219
12The portrait's dispersal: concepts of representation and subjectivity in contemporary portraiture239
Pt. VIIWhat is a Portrait?
13Pre-figured features: a view from the Papua New Guinea highlands259
Eclectic bibliography269
Index273


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