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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : Art History

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

Availability:

Not offered in 1997.

Credit Points:

16.7 4th year

Coordinator:

Dr Vivien Gaston

Prerequisite/s:

To have satisfied entry requirements for Honours in Art History.

Contact:

A 2-hour seminar.

Subject Description:

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:

Written work which may comprise class papers, essays, visual tests or take-home examinations totalling about 6000 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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