Anti-Portraiture

Name: Anti-Portraiture
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SKU: 9781350284197
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Challenging the Limits of the Portrait

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Anti-Portraiture explores the evolution of portraiture beyond traditional visual likenesses to embrace contemporary subjectivity through varied media such as sculpture, photography, and installation. The contributors propose new frameworks for understanding selfhood and representation, challenging established curatorial and acquisition practices in museums and galleries.
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Ideal for readers interested in contemporary art, critical theory, museum studies, and anyone exploring innovative perspectives on identity and representation in visual culture.

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The portrait has historically been understood as an artistic representation of a human subject. Its purpose was to provide a visual or psychological likeness or an expression of personal, familial, or social identity; it was typically associated with the privileged individual subject of Western modernity. Recent scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, however, has responded to the complex nature of twenty-first-century subjectivity and proffered fresh conceptual models and theories to analyse it.

The contributors to Anti-Portraiture examine subjectivity via a range of media, including sculpture, photography, and installation, and make a convincing case for an expanded definition of portraiture. By offering a timely reappraisal of the terms through which this genre is approached, the chapter authors volunteer new paradigms in which to consider selfhood, embodiment, and representation. In doing so, they further this exciting academic debate and challenge the curatorial practices and acquisition policies of museums and galleries.

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Choice praises the book for its examination of conceptual and experimental portraits that prioritise symbolic meaning over physical appearance. Anne Collins Goodyear highlights the anthology's nuanced discussion on the politics of portraiture, noting its resilience and adaptability in response to new media and cultural questions.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781350284197

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 30 June 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Illustration: 20 bw illus

Contributors:

Edited by Fiona Johnstone
Edited by Kirstie Imber

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 232

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Fiona Johnstone is an art historian, researcher and lecturer, specialising in the modern and contemporary period, with a focus on the intersections between art and visual culture and the medical humanities. She is Associate Lecturer in Cultural & Contextual Studies (Photography) at Middlesex University, UK. She has also worked at Durham University, the University of Warwick, Imperial College London, University of the West of England, University of the Arts London and Birkbeck, University of London, UK.

Kirstie Imber is Sessional Lecturer in the History of Art & Screen Media at Birkbeck, University of London, UK, where she was previously Associate Research Fellow. Her research interests include the censorship of art, the intersection of law and cultural practices in the UK, and contemporary Iranian art.