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Kirstie (Ed) Imber - Anti-Portraiture: Challenging the Limits of the Portrait - 9781784534127 - V9781784534127
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Anti-Portraiture: Challenging the Limits of the Portrait

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Description for Anti-Portraiture: Challenging the Limits of the Portrait Hardcover. Editor(s): Imber, Kirstie; Johnstone, Fiona. Num Pages: 256 pages, 20 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; AGHF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
The portrait has historically been understood as an artistic representation of a human subject. Its purpose was to provide a visual or psychological likenesses or an expression of personal, familial or social identity; it was typically associated with the privileged individual subject of Western modernity. Recent scholarship in the humanities and social sciences however has responded to the complex nature of twenty-first century subjectivity and proffered fresh conceptual models and theories to analyse it. The contributors to Anti-Portraiture examine subjectivity via a range of media including sculpture, photography and installation, and make a convincing case for an expanded definition ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2020
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784534127
SKU
V9781784534127
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About Kirstie (Ed) Imber
Fiona Johnstone is an art historian, researcher and lecturer, specialising in the modern and contemporary period, with a focus on the intersections between art and visual culture and the medical humanities. She is Associate Lecturer in Cultural & Contextual Studies (Photography) at Middlesex University, UK. She has also worked at Durham University, the University of Warwick, Imperial College London, University ... Read more

Reviews for Anti-Portraiture: Challenging the Limits of the Portrait
This book considers conceptual portraits, which are experimental and emphasize symbolic meanings rather than physical appearances. Some of the art in this book is conventional painting, drawing, sculpture, and photography, but most of it is innovative.
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This collection of essays by experts from the arts and literature provides important insights into the reconceptualization of portraiture in recent ... Read more

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