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111-437 The Artist'S Self-Portrait: Image, Role and Identity

Year 4 Fine Arts.

Availability: Not offered in 1996.

Credit points: 16.7 4th year.

Coordinator: Dr. Vivien Gaston.

Prerequisite: Two Art History subjects at second or third year level

Contact: A two hour seminar

Objectives:

In addition to the above students completing this subject will

• analyze and understand the function of self-portraits from the Renaissance to the present day
• have a critical knowledge of the artist's relation to society in changing cultural contexts
• be informed on issues arising from the growth of the artist's self-awareness and autonomy

Content:

This subject concentrates on self-portraits from the Renaissance to the present day. It explores the function of self-portraits as both reflecting and constructing the artist's identity. The artist's relation to society is examined in terms of changing cultural contexts

Assessment:

One class paper of 2,500 words and one essay 3,500 words.

Prescribed texts:

• J. L Koerner The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art, Chicago 1993
• H Perry Chapman Rembrandt's Self-Portraits. A Study in Seventeenth Century Identity, Princeton 1990
• R & M Wittkower Born under Saturn. The Character & Conduct of Artists, a Documented History from Antiquity to the French Revolution, London 1963
• M. R Brown Gypsies and other Bohemians: the Myth of the Artist in Nineteenth Century France Ann Arbor 1986

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Date created:    Oct  9 1995
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