Soussloff The Subject in Art

Portraiture and the Birth of the Modern
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8853-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 192 Seiten

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Argues that the modern subject did not emerge from psychoanalysis or existential philosophy but rather within early-twentieth-century Viennese portraiture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Soussloff, Catherine M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen Portraitdarstellung in der Kunst

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations vii

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: The Subject in Art 1

1. A Genealogy of the Subject in the Portrait 5

2. The Birth of the Social History of Art 25

3. The Subject at Risk: Jewish Assimilation and Viennese Portraiture 57

4. Art Photography, Portraiture, and Modern Subjectivity 83

5. Regarding the Subject in Art History: An Epilogue 115

Notes 123

Bibliography 149

Illustration Credits 163

Index 167

Über Autor(innen)

Catherine M. Soussloff holds the University of California Presidential Chair in the History of Art and Visual Culture at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of The Absolute Artist: The Historiography of a Concept and the editor of Jewish Identity in Modern Art History.