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

    Picturing the Self by Doy, Gen;

    Changing Views of the Subject in Visual Culture

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    • Publisher I.B. Tauris
    • Date of Publication 24 September 2004
    • Number of Volumes Paperback

    • ISBN 9781850434139
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages272 pages
    • Size 234x156 mm
    • Weight 625 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 8 colour plates & b&w illustrations
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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; the marginalized - beggars and asylum seekers - and "the real me". A wide range of artists, including Tracey Emin, Jeff Wall, Eugene Palmer and Karen Knorr, are discussed, as well as historical material from earlier periods.

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