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" Portrayal and the search for identity / "
Marcia Pointon
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BL
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646778
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Pointon, Marcia R
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Portrayal and the search for identity /\ Marcia Pointon
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| Publication Statement
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London :: Reaktion,, ©2013
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272 pages :: illustrations (chiefly color) ;; 24 cm
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9781780230412
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: 1780230419
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-262) and index
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| Contents
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Portrait, fact and fiction -- Slavery and the possibilities of portraiture -- Adolescence, sexuality and colour in portraiture: Sir Thomas Lawrence -- Accessories in portraits: stockings, buttons and the constructs of masculinity in the eighteenth century -- The skull in the studio
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"In Portrayal and the Search for Identity, Marcia Pointon investigates how we view and understand portraiture as a genre and how portraits function as artworks within social and political networks. Likeness is never a straightforward matter, as we rarely have the subject of a portrait as a point of comparison. Featuring familiar canonical works and little-known portraits, Portrayal seeks to unsettle notions of portraiture as an art of convention, a reassuring reflection of social realities. Pointon invites readers to consider how identity is produced pictorially and where likeness is registered apart from in a face. In exploring these issues, she addresses wide-ranging problems such as the construction of masculinity in dress, representations of slaves, and self-portraiture in relation to mortality" --Amazon.com
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Portraits
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Identity (Psychology) in art
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| Dewey Classification
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704.942
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N7575.P65 2013
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