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Portrayal and the search for identity /

1780230419

9781780230412

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Portrayal and the search for identity /

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Marcia Pointon

London :

Reaktion,

©2013

272 pages :

illustrations (chiefly color) ;

24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-262) and index

Portrait, fact and fiction -- Slavery and the possibilities of portraiture -- Adolescence, sexuality and colour in portraiture: Sir Thomas Lawrence -- Accessories in portraits: stockings, buttons and the constructs of masculinity in the eighteenth century -- The skull in the studio

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"In Portrayal and the Search for Identity, Marcia Pointon investigates how we view and understand portraiture as a genre and how portraits function as artworks within social and political networks. Likeness is never a straightforward matter, as we rarely have the subject of a portrait as a point of comparison. Featuring familiar canonical works and little-known portraits, Portrayal seeks to unsettle notions of portraiture as an art of convention, a reassuring reflection of social realities. Pointon invites readers to consider how identity is produced pictorially and where likeness is registered apart from in a face. In exploring these issues, she addresses wide-ranging problems such as the construction of masculinity in dress, representations of slaves, and self-portraiture in relation to mortality" --Amazon.com

Identity (Psychology) in art

Portraits

Pointon, Marcia R

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