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Posted on: Friday, December 18, 2009 5:30 AM
Author: Gen Doy
Subject: Picturing the Self: Changing Views of the Subject in Visual Culture
| Viewed : 26 Publisher : I. B. Tauris Authors : Gen Doy Ideas of selfhood, from Descartes to postmodern notions of the fragmented and de-centred self, have been crucial to the visual arts. Gen Doy explores this relationship, primarily in relation to contemporary art but also going back to the early modern period and Holbein's Ambassadors. She argues that the importance of subjectivity for art goes far beyond self-portraits, exploring the self and identity--both the... |
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