1st Edition
Technologies of the Self-Portrait Identity, Presence and the Construction of the Subject(s) in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Art
By Gabriella Giannachi
Copyright 2023
164 Pages
42 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
164 Pages
42 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
164 Pages
42 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book demonstrates how artists have radically revisited the genre of the self-portrait by using a range of technologies and media that mark different phases in what can be described as a history of self- or selves-production.
Gabriella Giannachi shows how artists constructed their presence, subjectivity, and personhood, by using a range of technologies and media including mirrors,... Read more
Introduction
1. The Invention of the Self-Portrait
2. The Photographic Self-Portrait
3. Sculpting the Self
4. Video Self-Portraits
5. The Selfie
Conclusion
Biography
Gabriella Giannachi is Professor in Performance and New Media, and Director of the Centre for Intermedia at the University of Exeter.
