Fictions of the Pose: Rembrandt Against the Italian Renaissance

by Harry Berger Jr.

Book Overview

The foundational question this book explores is: What happens when portraits are interpreted as imitations or likenesses not only of individuals but also of their acts of posing--when the observer's attention is redirected so that the primary object the portrait imitates becomes the likeness not of a person but of an act, the act of sitting for one's portrait? This shift of attention involves another: from the painter's to the sitter's part in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804733244
• ISBN13: 9780804733243
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 624 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 7.4" x 10.0"