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Picturing the Self: Changing Views of the Subject in Visual Culture

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Ideas of selfhood, from Descartes' theory of I think therefore I am to postmodern notions of the fragmented and de-centred self, have been crucial to the visual arts. Gen Doy explores this relationship, from Holbein's Ambassadors and the early modern period up to and beyond Marc Quinn's Self (Blood Head). Arguing that the importance of subjectivity for art goes far beyond self-portraits, she explores such topics as self-expression; the self, work and consumption; self-presentation; photography and the theatre of the self; ...

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Picturing the Self: Changing Views of the Subject in Visual Culture 2004, I. B. Tauris & Company, New York

ISBN-13: 9781850434139

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Picturing the Self: Changing Views of the Subject in Visual Culture 2004, I. B. Tauris & Company, New York

ISBN-13: 9781850434122

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