
Portrait
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The book consists of two extended essays written a decade apart but in close conversation, in which Nancy considers the range of aspirations articulated by the portrait. Heavily illustrated, it includes a newly written preface bringing the two essays together and a substantial Introduction by Jeffrey Librett, which places Nancy's work within the range of thinking of aesthetics and the subject, from religion, to aesthetics, to psychoanalysis.
Though undergirded by a powerful grasp of the philosophical and psychoanalytic tradition that has rendered our sense of the subject so problematic, Nancy's book is at heart a delightful, unpretentious reading of three dozen portraits, from ancient drinking mugs to recent experimental or parodic pieces in which the artistic representation of a sitter is made from their blood, germ cultures, or DNA.
The contemporary world of ubiquitous photos, Nancy argues, in no way makes the portrait a thing of the past. On the contrary, the forms of appearing that mark the portrait continue to challenge how we see the bodies and representations that dominate our world.
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Sarah Clift is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Studies at the University of King's College, Halifax.
Jeffrey S. Librett is Professor of German at the University of Oregon.
Content
Introduction: The Subject of the Portrait
By Jeffrey S. Librett
The Look of the Portrait
The Autonomous Portrait
Resemblance
Recall
Look
The Other Portrait
List of Figures
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