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

Availability

Not offered in 1998.

Credit Points

16.7 4th year

Coordinator

Dr Vivien Gaston

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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