Anti-Portraiture: Challenging the Limits of the Portrait

The portrait has historically been understood as an artistic representation of a human subject. Its purpose was to provide a visual or psychological likenesses 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 135028419X
• ISBN13: 9781350284197
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"