A Phenomenology of Vision: the Self-Portraits of Jean-Étienne Liotard
This essay analyses the self-portraits of Jean-Étienne Liotard (1702-1789). Interpreting these objects through the lens of Maurice-Merleau-Ponty's writings on art and vision, I argue that Liotard's self-portraits can be understood as artistic experiments relating to the fundamental phenome...
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| description | This essay analyses the self-portraits of Jean-Étienne Liotard (1702-1789). Interpreting these objects through the lens of Maurice-Merleau-Ponty's writings on art and vision, I argue that Liotard's self-portraits can be understood as artistic experiments relating to the fundamental phenomenological problem of seeing and representing the lived-body. In making this argument this essay re-evaluates the art-historical tendency to read Liotard's self-portraits biographically as pictures of his unusual life or as tools of self-promotion. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-138b137ed1d74523a8de4fb375d400202023-11-02T04:01:01ZdeuInternational Association of Research Institutes in the History of Art (RIHA)RIHA Journal2190-33282190-33282012-01-010034A Phenomenology of Vision: the Self-Portraits of Jean-Étienne LiotardWilliams, HannahThis essay analyses the self-portraits of Jean-Étienne Liotard (1702-1789). Interpreting these objects through the lens of Maurice-Merleau-Ponty's writings on art and vision, I argue that Liotard's self-portraits can be understood as artistic experiments relating to the fundamental phenomenological problem of seeing and representing the lived-body. In making this argument this essay re-evaluates the art-historical tendency to read Liotard's self-portraits biographically as pictures of his unusual life or as tools of self-promotion.http://www.riha-journal.org/articles/2012/2012-jan-mar/williams-phenomenology-of-visionJean-Étienne Liotardself-portraiturephenomenologyMaurice Merleau-Pontyeighteenth centurySelbstbildnis |
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| title | A Phenomenology of Vision: the Self-Portraits of Jean-Étienne Liotard |
| title_full | A Phenomenology of Vision: the Self-Portraits of Jean-Étienne Liotard |
| title_fullStr | A Phenomenology of Vision: the Self-Portraits of Jean-Étienne Liotard |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Phenomenology of Vision: the Self-Portraits of Jean-Étienne Liotard |
| title_short | A Phenomenology of Vision: the Self-Portraits of Jean-Étienne Liotard |
| title_sort | phenomenology of vision the self portraits of jean etienne liotard |
| topic | Jean-Étienne Liotard self-portraiture phenomenology Maurice Merleau-Ponty eighteenth century Selbstbildnis |
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