On Artists’ Self-Portraits and Autobiographies
The article is devoted to the problem of self-portraiture in fine art in comparison with ego-texts written by artists. Many of the most prominent Russian painters of the twentieth century (Chagall, Petrov-Vodkin, Filonov, Malevich) were not only enthusiastic about the self-portrait genre, but also p...
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Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Letterari - Università di Padova
2019-12-01
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| description | The article is devoted to the problem of self-portraiture in fine art in comparison with ego-texts written by artists. Many of the most prominent Russian painters of the twentieth century (Chagall, Petrov-Vodkin, Filonov, Malevich) were not only enthusiastic about the self-portrait genre, but also produced literary works about their own lives: they became authors of autobiographical prose, memoirs and poems. This article compares their life-writings and paintings in order to at model the relationship between visual representation and verbal representation in twentieth-century culture. It raises the problems of self-presentation in the context of intermediality, with particular attention to how writing and painting deal with time and space. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8be5b8aed9ea4fed9d67cc4a9c2bc37a2022-12-21T23:21:25ZengDipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Letterari - Università di PadovaAvtobiografija2281-69922019-12-010825127010.25430/2281-6992/v8-251-270On Artists’ Self-Portraits and AutobiographiesNatalia ZlydnevaThe article is devoted to the problem of self-portraiture in fine art in comparison with ego-texts written by artists. Many of the most prominent Russian painters of the twentieth century (Chagall, Petrov-Vodkin, Filonov, Malevich) were not only enthusiastic about the self-portrait genre, but also produced literary works about their own lives: they became authors of autobiographical prose, memoirs and poems. This article compares their life-writings and paintings in order to at model the relationship between visual representation and verbal representation in twentieth-century culture. It raises the problems of self-presentation in the context of intermediality, with particular attention to how writing and painting deal with time and space.https://www.avtobiografija.com/index.php/avtobiografija/article/view/200self-portraitautobiographytwentieth centuryrussian artego-textintermediality |
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| title_short | On Artists’ Self-Portraits and Autobiographies |
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