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Picturing the Self: Changing Views of the Subject in Visual Culture
Picturing the Self Changing Views of the Subject in Visual Culture
Author: Gen Doy
Ideas of selfhood, from Descartes to postmodern notions of the fragmented and de-centred self, have been crucial to the visual arts. Gen Doy explores this relationship, primarily in relation to contemporary art but also going back to the early modern period and Holbein's Ambassadors. She argues that the importance of subjectivity for art goes fa...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781850434122
ISBN-10: 1850434123
Publication Date: 12/17/2004
Pages: 304
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Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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