Portraiture and critical reflections on being /

Portraiture and critical reflections on being /

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Author / Creator:Altintzoglou, Euripides, 1978- author.
Imprint:New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
©2018
Description:172 pages ; 26 cm.
Language:English
Series:Routledge advances in art and visual studies
Routledge advances in art and visual studies.
Subject:
Portraits.
Dualism in art.
Dualism in art.
Portraits.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11603754
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ISBN:9781138580602
1138580600
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:This book analyzes the philosophical origins of dualism in portraiture in Western culture during the Classical period, through to contemporary modes of portraiture. Dualism - the separation of mind from body - plays a central part in portraiture, given that it supplies the fundamental framework for portraiture's determining problem and justification: the visual construction of the subjectivity of the sitter, which is invariably accounted for as ineffable entity or spirit, that the artist magically captures. Every artist that has engaged with portraiture has had to deal with these issues and, therefore, with the question of being and identity.

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