Joanna Woodall

Portraiture

Facing the subject

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Presents a comprehensive introduction to the major issues in the history of portraiture. The text's chapters are structured chronologically, progressing from the Italian Renaissance to Dutch 17th-century portraiture and on to Picasso, surrealism, Lucian Freud and Cindy Sherman.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9780719046148
• ISBN-10: 0719046149
• Artikelnr.: 21275604

Autorenporträt

Joanna Woodall is Lecturer at the Courtauld Institute, London

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. The Sexual Construction of Identity
3. The Social Construction of Identity
4. Likeness and Identity
5. The Portrait Transaction
6. Identity and Truth
7. The Authority of Portraiture
8. Pre-figured Features