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Picturing Identity

Author : Hertha D. Sweet Wong
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469640716
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Picturing Identity written by Hertha D. Sweet Wong and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-05-02 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Hertha D. Sweet Wong examines the intersection of writing and visual art in the autobiographical work of twentieth- and twenty-first-century American writers and artists who employ a mix of written and visual forms of self-narration. Combining approaches from autobiography studies and visual studies, Wong argues that, in grappling with the breakdown of stable definitions of identity and unmediated representation, these writers-artists experiment with hybrid autobiography in image and text to break free of inherited visual-verbal regimes and revise painful histories. These works provide an interart focus for examining the possibilities of self-representation and self-narration, the boundaries of life writing, and the relationship between image and text. Wong considers eight writers-artists, including comic-book author Art Spiegelman; Faith Ringgold, known for her story quilts; and celebrated Indigenous writer Leslie Marmon Silko. Wong shows how her subjects formulate webs of intersubjectivity shaped by historical trauma, geography, race, and gender as they envision new possibilities of selfhood and fresh modes of self-narration in word and image.

Picturing the Self

Author : Gen Doy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857715658
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Picturing the Self written by Gen Doy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2004-09-24 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideas of selfhood, from Descartes' theory of "I think therefore I am" to postmodern notions of the fragmented and de-centred self, have been crucial to the visual arts. Gen Doy explores this relationship, from Holbein's "Ambassadors" and the early modern period up to and beyond Marc Quinn's "Self" (Blood Head). Arguing that the importance of subjectivity for art goes far beyond self-portraits, she explores such topics as self-expression; the self, work and consumption; self-presentation; photography and the theatre of the self; the marginalized - beggars and asylum seekers - and "the real me". A wide range of artists, including Tracey Emin, Jeff Wall, Eugene Palmer and Karen Knorr, are discussed, as well as historical material from earlier periods.

Picturing Ourselves

Author : Linda Haverty Rugg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226731480
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Picturing Ourselves written by Linda Haverty Rugg and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photography has transformed the way we picture ourselves. Although photographs seem to "prove" our existence at a given point in time, they also demonstrate the impossibility of framing our multiple and fragmented selves. As Linda Haverty Rugg convincingly shows, photography's double take on self-image mirrors the concerns of autobiographers, who see the self as simultaneously divided (in observing/being) and unified by the autobiographical act. Rugg tracks photography's impact on the formation of self-image through the study of four literary autobiographers concerned with the transformative power of photography. Obsessed with self-image, Mark Twain and August Strindberg both attempted (unsuccessfully) to integrate photographs into their autobiographies. While Twain encouraged photographers, he was wary of fakery and kept a fierce watch on the distribution of his photographic image. Strindberg, believing that photographs had occult power, preferred to photograph himself. Because of their experiences under National Socialism, Walter Benjamin and Christa Wolf feared the dangerously objectifying power of photographs and omitted them from their autobiographical writings. Yet Benjamin used them in his photographic conception of history, which had its testing ground in his often-ignored Berliner Kindheit um 1900. And Christa Wolf's narrator in Patterns of Childhood attempts to reclaim her childhood from the Nazis by reconstructing mental images of lost family photographs. Confronted with multiple and conflicting images of themselves, all four of these writers are torn between the knowledge that texts, photographs, and indeed selves are haunted by undecidability and the desire for the returned glance of a single self.

Picturing the Self

Author : Gen Doy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780755604869
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Picturing the Self written by Gen Doy and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideas of selfhood, from Descartes' theory of "I think therefore I am" to postmodern notions of the fragmented and de-centred self, have been crucial to the visual arts. Gen Doy explores this relationship, from Holbein's "Ambassadors" and the early modern period up to and beyond Marc Quinn's "Self" (Blood Head). Arguing that the importance of subjectivity for art goes far beyond self-portraits, she explores such topics as self-expression; the self, work and consumption; self-presentation; photography and the theatre of the self; the marginalized - beggars and asylu.

Picturing Courtiers and Nobles from Castiglione to Van Dyck

Author : John Peacock
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000167968
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Picturing Courtiers and Nobles from Castiglione to Van Dyck written by John Peacock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-09 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary study examines painted portraiture as a defining metaphor of elite self-representation in early modern culture. Beginning with Castiglione’s Book of the Courtier (1528), the most influential early modern account of the formation of elite identity, the argument traces a path across the ensuing century towards the images of courtiers and nobles by the most persuasive of European portrait painters, Van Dyck, especially those produced in London during the 1630s. It investigates two related kinds of texts: those which, following Castiglione, model the conduct of the ideal courtier or elite social conduct more generally; and those belonging to the established tradition of debates about the condition of nobility –how far it is genetically inherited and how far a function of excelling moral and social behaviour. Van Dyck is seen as contributing to these discussions through the language of pictorial art. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, cultural history, early modern history and Renaissance studies.

Picturing Power

Author : Karl Kusserow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780231123587
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book Picturing Power written by Karl Kusserow and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The almost three hundred portraits that once composed the New York Chamber of Commerce's renowned collection capture the giants of American business with aesthetic and symbolic power. The images of civic leaders and entrepreneurs, carefully assembled over two hundred years, tell the story of American industry as shaped and reflected in the life of a major institution. Interpreting these images as historical documents, Picturing Power traces the establishment, growth, and eventual decline of the nation's most powerful business organization. Lavishly illustrated, this book also charts the social and aesthetic course of institutional portraiture in the United States. From its inception in 1768, the Chamber regulated and codified commercial practice, provided business interests with a unified means of forming and advancing their agendas, and consolidated and elevated the status of its members and their professions. By linking commercial development to social and cultural progress, portraiture did much to support these ends. Whether enhancing, sanitizing, or stabilizing the reputations of business leaders; downplaying their wealth; or whitewashing their questionable practices, portraiture fashioned a public identity that matched corporate and civic needs as they evolved over time. By following changes in the use of these images, Picturing Power reveals the strategies and preoccupations of an American business culture that strove for egalitarian virtue while remaining firmly committed to the principles of competitive capitalism. Americans' shifting and ambivalent relationship to commerce situates these portraits--representations of the human face of business--at the critical intersection of enduring contests in American life, between self-interest and the greater good, between equality and the social hierarchy that wealth engenders.

Picturing Research

Author : Linda Theron
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9460915965
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Picturing Research written by Linda Theron and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Picturing research: drawing as visual methodology offers a timely analysis of the use of drawings in qualitative research. Drawing can be a method in itself, as in the research area of Visual Studies, and also one that complements the use of photography, video, and other visual methodologies. This edited volume is divided into two sections. The first section provides critical commentary on the use of drawings in social science research, addressing such issues of methodology as the politics of working with children and drawing, ethical issues in working with both adults and children, and some of the interpretive considerations. The second section, in its presentation of nine research-based case-studies, illustrates the richness of drawings. Each case study explores participatory research involving drawings that encourages social change, or illustrates participant resilience. These case studies also highlight the various genres of drawings including cartoons and storyboarding. The book draws on community-based research from a wide variety of contexts, most in South Africa, although it also includes work from Rwanda and Lesotho. Given the high rates of HIV&AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, it should not be surprising that many of the chapters take up concerns such as the preparation of teachers and community health workers in the age of AIDS, and the experiences of orphans and vulnerable children. Moving further afield, this book also includes work done with immigrant populations in Canada, and with tribunals in Somalia and Australia. Picturing research is an important resource for novice and experienced researchers interested in employing qualitative methodology that encourages rich (yet low-tech) visible data and that offers a participatory, enabling experience for participants and their communities.

It's Raining ... I Love You

Author : Molly Landreth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781732124189
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (241 download)

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Download or read book It's Raining ... I Love You written by Molly Landreth and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This co-authored book of early self-portraits by two professional photographers celebrates love-first love, an enduring friendship that resulted, and a lifelong devotion to photography as a form of creative expression. The black and white photographs in the book are drawn from the summer of 1999-when Prince told us to party, computer scientists feared global shutdown, and the seismic changes in communication that arrived with widespread use of the internet had not yet occurred. Jenny Riffle and Molly Landreth, home from their first year at separate colleges, documented the precious and banal moments of early adulthood as they explored their surroundings, and each other, through photography. Presented along with selected correspondence from the remainder of their college years, the photographs are a testament to the power of enduring friendship, and the creative spirits of two unique yet complementary artists.

Picturing the World

Author : John C. Gilmour
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 9781438404103
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Picturing the World written by John C. Gilmour and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1985-11-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientists are portrayed as champions of objectivity and truth, and artists as champions of subjectivity and creative expression. Through analysis of modern art, John C. Gilmour shows how misleading is this separation of the world into objective and subjective spheres. This false dichotomy depends upon a dated philosophy of mind. The issues posed are developed from the ideas of Nietzche, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Gadamer, Ricoeur, Wittgenstein, Rorty, Dewey, and Whitehead. Picturing the World requires us to reconceive the role of the artist in the creative process and the role of the arts in general.

Picturing Personhood

Author : Joseph Dumit
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691236623
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Picturing Personhood written by Joseph Dumit and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By showing us the human brain at work, PET (positron emission tomography) scans are subtly--and sometimes not so subtly--transforming how we think about our minds. Picturing Personhood follows this remarkable and expensive technology from the laboratory into the world and back. It examines how PET scans are created and how they are being called on to answer myriad questions with far-reaching implications: Is depression an observable brain disease? Are criminals insane? Do men and women think differently? Is rationality a function of the brain? Based on interviews, media analysis, and participant observation at research labs and conferences, Joseph Dumit analyzes how assumptions designed into and read out of the experimental process reinforce specific notions about human nature. Such assumptions can enter the process at any turn, from selecting subjects and mathematical models to deciding which images to publish and how to color them. Once they leave the laboratory, PET scans shape social debates, influence courtroom outcomes, and have positive and negative consequences for people suffering mental illness. Dumit follows this complex story, demonstrating how brain scans, as scientific objects, contribute to our increasing social dependence on scientific authority. The first book to examine the cultural ramifications of brain-imaging technology, Picturing Personhood is an unprecedented study that will influence both cultural studies and the growing field of science and technology studies.

Picturing the Human : The Moral Thought of Iris Murdoch

Author : Maria Antonaccio Assistant Professor of Religion Bucknell University
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198030193
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Picturing the Human : The Moral Thought of Iris Murdoch written by Maria Antonaccio Assistant Professor of Religion Bucknell University and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000-05-31 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iris Murdoch has long been known as one of the most deeply insightful and morally passionate novelists of our time. This attention has often eclipsed Murdoch's sophisticated and influential work as a philosopher, which has had a wide-ranging impact on thinkers in moral philosophy as well as religious ethics and political theory. Yet it has never been the subject of a book-length study in its own right. Picturing the Human seeks to fill this gap. In this groundbreaking book, author Maria Antonaccio presents the first systematic and comprehensive treatment of Murdoch's moral philosophy. Unlike literary critical studies of her novels, it offers a general philosophical framework for assessing Murdoch's thought as a whole. Antonaccio also suggests a new interpretive method for reading Murdoch's philosophy and outlines the significance of her thought in the context of current debates in ethics. This vital study will appeal to those interested in moral philosophy, religious ethics, and literary criticism, and grants those who have long loved Murdoch's novels a closer look at her remarkable philosophy.

Art of Suicide

Author : Ron Brown
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1861896867
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Art of Suicide written by Ron Brown and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2004-01-02 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of Suicide is a history of the visual representation of suicide from the ancient world to its decriminalization in the 20th century. After looking at instances of voluntary death in ancient Greece, Ron Brown discusses the contrast between the extraordinary absence of such events in early Christianity and the proliferation of images of biblical suicides in the late medieval era. He emphasizes how differing attitudes to suicide in the early modern world slowly merged, and pays particular attention to the one-time chasm between so-called heroic suicide and self-destruction as a "crying crime". Brown tracks the changes surrounding the perception of suicide into the pivotal Romantic era, with its notions of the "man of feeling", ready to hurl himself into the abyss over a woman or an unfinishable poem. After the First World War, the meaning of death and attitudes towards suicide changed radically, and in time this led to its decriminalization. The 20th century in fact witnessed a growing ambivalence towards suicidal acts, which today are widely regarded either as expressions of a death-wish or as cries for help. Brown concludes with Warhol's picture of Marilyn Monroe and the videos taken by the notorious Dr Kevorkian.

Text and Image in Women's Life Writing

Author : Valérie Baisnée-Keay
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030848752
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Text and Image in Women's Life Writing written by Valérie Baisnée-Keay and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-12 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the relationship between words and images in various life-writing works produced by nineteenth to twenty-first century American and British women. It addresses the politics of images in women’s life writing, contending that the presence or absence of images is often strategic. Including a range of different forms of life writing, chapters draw on traditional (auto)biographies, travel narratives, memoirs, diaries, autofiction, cancer narratives, graphic memoirs, artistic installations, quilts and online performances, as life writing moves from page to screen and other media. The book explores a wide range of women who have crossed the boundary between text and image: painters who have become writers, novelists who have become painters, writers who hesitate between images and words, models who seize the camera, and artists who use the frame as a page.

Picturing Dogs, Seeing Ourselves

Author : Ann-Janine Morey
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271065702
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Picturing Dogs, Seeing Ourselves written by Ann-Janine Morey and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2014-08-22 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dogs are as ubiquitous in American culture as white picket fences and apple pie, embracing all the meanings of wholesome domestic life—family, fidelity, comfort, protection, nurturance, and love—as well as symbolizing some of the less palatable connotations of home and family, including domination, subservience, and violence. In Picturing Dogs, Seeing Ourselves, Ann-Janine Morey presents a collection of antique photographs of dogs and their owners in order to investigate the meanings associated with the canine body. Included are reproductions of 115 postcards, cabinet cards, and cartes de visite that feature dogs in family and childhood snapshots, images of hunting, posed studio portraits, and many other settings between 1860 and 1950. These photographs offer poignant testimony to the American romance with dogs and show how the dog has become part of cultural expressions of race, class, and gender. Animal studies scholars have long argued that our representation of animals in print and in the visual arts has a profound connection to our lived cultural identity. Other books have documented the depiction of dogs in art and photography, but few have reached beyond the subject’s obvious appeal. Picturing Dogs, Seeing Ourselves draws on animal, visual, and literary studies to present an original and richly contextualized visual history of the relationship between Americans and their dogs. Though the personal stories behind these everyday photographs may be lost to us, their cultural significance is not.

The Book of Portraiture

Author : Steve Tomasula
Publisher : F2c
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Portraiture written by Steve Tomasula and published by F2c. This book was released on 2006 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Book of Portraiture "is a postmodern epic in writing and images. A desert nomad struggles at the close of the ancient world to inscribe himself into life, and centuries later a Renaissance artist attempts to overcome his lowly origins by painting nobility. Throughout Steve Tomasula's arresting tour de force, human beings seek to become what they are by representing it. An early twentieth-century psychoanalyst in search of a cure for sexual neurosis discovers the reflection of his own yearning in a female client, and an accidental community of twenty-first century image-makers connects the pixels to bring their group portrait into focus. Across a canvas that spans centuries, the several narrators of this novel look through the lens of their own time and portray objects of desire in paint, dreams, photography, electronic data, and genetic code. Together their portraits comprise a collage of styles and habits of mind. "The Book of Portraiture" is a novel about the irrepressible impulse to picture ourselves, and how, through this picturing, we continually re-create what it means to be human. "Once again, Steve Tomasula has fabricated an incisive and sly commentary on art's way of being in the world, and the manner in which it intersects, and conflicts, with our perceptions. Virtuosic in its execution, and sublime in its discernment, "The Book of Portraiture" is an able continuation of Tomasula's ongoing project to redraw the boundaries of contemporary fiction."--Christopher Sorrentino "Tomasula's five interlocking chapters cross continents and centuries and aesthetic sensibilities to build to a dazzling and dizzying whole. "The Book of Portraiture" is one of those rare books that manage to be at once emotionally and theoretically satisfying."--Brian Evenson "Think of Swift, Groddeck, Lautreamont, and George Carlin conversing together in a large wastebin--up to their chins in 21st century sweepings--and you will begin to have an idea of Tomasula's very funny, very smart and downright scary epic vision."--Rikki Ducornet Steve Tomasula is the author of the acclaimed novels IN & OZ "(Ministry of Whimsy)" and "VAS: An Opera in Flatland." Among the venues where his short fiction has appeared are "McSweeney's" and "The Iowa Review, " where he received the distinguished Iowa Prize. His writings on body art and culture have appeared in "Leonardo" and numerous arts journals.

A Thousand Words

Author : Jaime Hovey
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814210147
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book A Thousand Words written by Jaime Hovey and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a long-overdue volume dedicated to space trajectoro optimisation. Interest in the subject has grown, as space missions of increasing levels of sophistication, complexito, and scientific return - hardlo imaginable in the 1960s - have been designed and flown. Although the basic tools of optimisation theoro remain an accepted canon, there has been a revolution in the manner in which theo are applied and in the development of numerical optimisation. This volume purposelo includes a varieto of both analotical and numerical approaches to trajectoro optimisation. The choice of authors has been guided bo the editor's intention to assemble the most expert and active researchers in the various specialities presented. The authors were given considerable freedom to choose their subjects, and although this mao oield a somewhat eclectic volume, it also oields chapters written with palpable enthusiasm and relevant to contemporaro problems.

A Face to the World: On Self-Portraits

Author : Laura Cumming
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007391943
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book A Face to the World: On Self-Portraits written by Laura Cumming and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the art of self-portraiture, this effortlessly engaging exploration of the lives of artists sheds fascinating light on some of the most extraordinary portraits in art history.