Technologies of the Self-Portrait

Identity, Presence and the Construction of the Subject(s) in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Art
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-31018-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 164 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 449 g

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies

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.

Gabriella Giannachi shows how artists constructed their presence, subjectivity, and personhood, by using a range of technologies and media including mirrors, photography, sculpture, video, virtual reality and social media, to produce an increasingly fluid, multiple, and social representation of their ‘self’.

This interdisciplinary book draws from art history, performance studies, visual culture, new media theory, philosophy, computer science, and neuroscience to offer a radical new reading of the genre.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Giannachi, Gabriella

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert Konzeptkunst, Postmodernismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Geschichte der Kunstwissenschaft und Kunstkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen Portraitdarstellung in der Kunst

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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