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Author:   Fiona Johnstone (Durham University, UK) ,  Kirstie Imber (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Visual Arts
ISBN:  

9781350284197

ISBN 10:   135028419
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   30 June 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Images Notes on the Contributors Acknowledgements 1. Introducing the anti-portrait Fiona Johnstone and Kirstie Imber 2. Decapitations: the portrait, the anti-portrait ... and what comes after? of portraiture Michael Newman 3. An Anti-Portraitist in the Realm of Letters: Gertrude Stein's Theory of Seeing Ery Shin 4. ‘A whole man, made of all men’: Giacometti, Existentialism, and the ‘Singular Universal’ Véronique Wiesinger 5. ‘Closeness, or the Appearance of Closeness’: Robert Morris’s Critical Self-Portraits and the Expanding Artworld of 1960s America David Hodge 6. Subjects Unknown: Found Images and the Depersonalization of Portraiture Ella Mudie 7. Subject/Object: seeking the self in Susan Aldworth’s portraits of schizophrenia Julia Beaumont-Jonesvii 8.Hiding in Plain Sight: Gazing at Laura Swanson’s Anti-Self-Portraits Kristen Lindgren 9. Filling the Narrative Void: Material Portraits in the Chilean Post-Dictatorship Megan Corbin 10. Relics, Remains and Other Objects: Non-Mimetic Portraiture in the Age of AIDS Fiona Johnstone Index

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This collection of essays by experts from the arts and literature provides important insights into the reconceptualization of portraiture in recent decades. Understood as critique rather than as acquiescence, the portrait-or rather the anti-portrait-becomes a terrain for reimaging the implications of new media and new questions for asserting, or abstracting, human likeness. In this nuanced anthology Fiona Johnstone and Kirstie Imber demonstrate the elasticity and resilience of portraiture not as a genre but as a politics. --Anne Collins Goodyear, Co-Director, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, USA Modern and contemporary artists have for some time been challenging conventions of figurative portraiture by representing their subjects in unusual ways - using, for instance, evocative objects, indexical traces or words. Factors that have contributed to this movement include the impact of psychoanalytic and post-structuralist theories that have called into question notions of a singular personal identity, the rise of photography, as well as artists' efforts to reveal something that eludes figurative depiction. This book offers an engaging overview of 'anti-portraiture' with a wide-ranging general introduction and a number of excellent more sharply focused chapters by experts in the field. --Margaret Iversen, Professor Emerita, University of Essex, UK

Author Information

Fiona Johnstone is an art historian, researcher and lecturer, specialising in the modern and contemporary period, with a focus on the intersections between art and visual culture and the medical humanities. She is Associate Lecturer in Cultural & Contextual Studies (Photography) at Middlesex University, UK. She has also worked at Durham University, the University of Warwick, Imperial College London, University of the West of England, University of the Arts London and Birkbeck, University of London, UK. Kirstie Imber is Sessional Lecturer in the History of Art & Screen Media at Birkbeck, University of London, UK, where she was previously Associate Research Fellow. Her research interests include the censorship of art, the intersection of law and cultural practices in the UK, and contemporary Iranian art.

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