Picturing the Self
Subtitle: Changing Views of the Subject in Visual Culture
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Published: November 25, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781850434122
Subjects: History Of Art / Art & Design Styles; Iconography, subjects depicted in art; Theory of art; Art & Art Instruction; Art; History - General; Art / History / General; Arts; Self (Philosophy) in art; Subjectivity in art
First sentence: I am a great believer in the idea that if you want to seriously entertain criticisms of particular theories and understand why these criticisms have been made, and by whom, then it is necessary to read the original theories and situate them in the context in which they were written.