Not I: troubled self-representations
This study investigates visual representations of human selfhood by means of variable ratios of "I" and "not I", envisagement and defacement in spiritual, ideological as well as structural terms. The primary aim is to press art historical notions of self-portrait and portrait be...
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University of the Free State
2007-04-01
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This study investigates visual representations of human selfhood by means of variable ratios of "I" and "not I", envisagement and defacement in spiritual, ideological as well as structural terms. The primary aim is to press art historical notions of self-portrait and portrait beyond the limits of conventional genres of visual art. Two pivotal examples outside the familiar field of portraiture are examined, early and late modern respectively, both of them cases from the picaresque tradition where historical human identity is challenged and questioned in visual terms. Exploring the methodological potential of "iconoclash" as an ideology-critical notion was a secondary aim.
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| spelling | doaj.art-adedcd38d8a04d8ea2289e316f6984592024-03-07T11:12:50ZengUniversity of the Free StateActa Academica0587-24052415-04792007-04-01391Not I: troubled self-representationsDirk van den Berg0University of the Free State This study investigates visual representations of human selfhood by means of variable ratios of "I" and "not I", envisagement and defacement in spiritual, ideological as well as structural terms. The primary aim is to press art historical notions of self-portrait and portrait beyond the limits of conventional genres of visual art. Two pivotal examples outside the familiar field of portraiture are examined, early and late modern respectively, both of them cases from the picaresque tradition where historical human identity is challenged and questioned in visual terms. Exploring the methodological potential of "iconoclash" as an ideology-critical notion was a secondary aim. https://journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/aa/article/view/1130 |
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| title | Not I: troubled self-representations |
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