Catherine M Soussloff

The Subject in Art

Portraiture and the Birth of the Modern

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Study of the centrality of portraiture in the development of modern subjectivity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 326g
• ISBN-13: 9780822336709
• ISBN-10: 0822336707
• Artikelnr.: 22055121

Autorenporträt

Catherine M. Soussloff holds the University of California Presidential Chair in the History of Art and Visual Culture at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of The Absolute Artist: The Historiography of a Concept and the editor of Jewish Identity in Modern Art History.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: The Subject in Art 1
1. A Genealogy of the Subject in the Portrait 5
2. The Birth of the Social History of Art 25
3. The Subject at Risk: Jewish Assimilation and Viennese Portraiture 57
4. Art Photography, Portraiture, and Modern Subjectivity 83
5. Regarding the Subject in Art History: An Epilogue 115
Notes 123
Bibliography 149
Illustration Credits 163
Index 167