Portraiture and critical reflections on being /
This book analyzes the philosophical origins of dualism in portraiture in Western culture during the Classical period, through to contemporary modes of portraiture. Dualism, the separation of mind from body, plays a central part in portraiture, given that it supplies the fundamental framework for po...
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New York :
Routledge,
[2018]
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| Series: | Routledge advances in art and visual studies.
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Table of Contents:
- Narcissus' legacy : the origins of the Western portrait and the emergence of dualism
- Rembrandt's dilemma : the introduction of Cartesianism in seventeenth-century Dutch portraiture
- Picasso's solution : the crisis of the honorific and the clash of subjectivities
- The turning of a blind (third) eye : the critique of the honorific in radical forms of contemporary portraiture
- Epilogue : vicious circles.