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, photography, sculpture, video, virtual reality and social media, to produce an increasingly fluid, multiple, and social representation of their 'self'.
This interdisciplinary book draws from art history, performance studies, visual culture, new media theory, philosophy, computer science, and neuroscience to offer a radical new reading of the genre.
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Verlagsort
Verlagsgruppe
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate
Illustrationen
42 s/w Abbildungen, 42 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder
42 Halftones, black and white; 42 Illustrations, black and white
Maße
Höhe: 246 mm
Breite: 174 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-1-138-60445-2 (9781138604452)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Gabriella Giannachi is Professor in Performance and New Media, and Director of the Centre for Intermedia at the University of Exeter.
Autor*in
University of Exeter, UK
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
