Portraiture : facing the subject /
Contributor(s): Woodall, Joanna
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Series: Critical introductions to art.Publisher: Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press : Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, 1997Description: xv, 282 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0719046122; 9780719046124:; 0719046149 (pbk.).Subject(s): Portraits![](/opac-tmpl/bootstrap/images/filefind.png)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Homosociality and erotics in Italian Renaissance portraiture / Patricia Simons -- The ideology of feminine 'virtue' : the vestal virgin in French eighteenth-century allegorical portraiture / Kathleen Nicholson -- Sovereign bodies : the reality of status in seventeenth-century Dutch portraiture / Joanna Woodall -- Medical men 1780-1820 / Ludmilla Jordanova -- Photographic likeness / John Gage -- Photographic portraiture in central India in the 1980s and 1990s / Christopher Pinney -- She's got the look! Eighteenth-century female portrait painters and psychology of a potentially 'dangerous employment' / Angela Rosenthal -- Inscribing alterity : transactions of self and other in Miró self-portraits / David Lomas -- Kahnweiler's Picasso ; Picasso's Kahnweiler / Marcia Pointin -- Rembrandt / Genet / Derrida / Sarah Wilson -- Facing the past and present : the National Portrait Gallery and the search for 'authentic' portraiture / Paul Barlow -- The portrait's dispersal : concepts of representation and subjectivity in contemporary portraiture / Ernst Van Alphen -- Pre-figured features : a view from the Papua New Guinea highlands / Marilyn Strathern.
Portraiture, the most popular genre of painting, occupies a central position in the history of Western art. Despite this, its status within academic art theory is uncertain. This volume provides an introduction to major issues in its history.