Technologies of the Self-Portrait - Identity, Presence and the Construction of the Subject(s) in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Art

This book demonstrates how artists have radically revisited the genre of the self-portrait by using a range of technologies and media that mark different phases in what can be described as a history of self- or selves-production.

List of contents

Introduction
1. The Invention of the Self-Portrait
2. The Photographic Self-Portrait
3. Sculpting the Self
4. Video Self-Portraits
5. The Selfie
Conclusion

Summary

This book demonstrates how artists have radically revisited the genre of the self-portrait by using a range of technologies and media that mark different phases in what can be described as a history of self- or selves-production.

Product details

• Authors: Gabriella Giannachi, Giannachi Gabriella
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.08.2024
• EAN: 9781032310183
• ISBN: 978-1-032-31018-3
• No. of pages: 152
• Weight: 300 g
• Illustrations: schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Series: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; History, Media Studies, Sociology, Theory of art, ART / Subjects & Themes / Portraits, ART / History / General, ART / Criticism & Theory, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), ART / Art & Politics, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), ART / Conceptual, History of art / art & design styles, Theatre Studies, History of Art, Humanities, Social, group or collective psychology, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Gender studies, gender groups, Performance Art