The self-aware image
Subtitle: an insight into early modern meta-painting
By: Victor I. Stoichita ; translated by Anne-Marie Glasheen
Series: Cambridge studies in new art history and criticism
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York, NY, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
Subjects: Painters -- Psychology.; Painting, Renaissance -- Themes, motives.; Painting, Modern -- Themes, motives.; Metacognition.
Description: Arguing that panel painting, from its origins in the Early Renaissance, was a "self-aware image," Stoichita demonstrates that the artists and their art were often the theme of the painting. He also examines the mirror effect and other "splitting" strategies such as the mise en abyme and intertextual play. By analyzing these modalities of self-reflection, Stoichita offers a new and unexpected view of a period and the art it produced once considered to have been definitively classified.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-331) and index.