... Generation whose historical self-portraiture is evidenced by a range of contemporary cultural forms including literature, music, painting, theatre, and cinema. Braester Yomi Deng Xiaoping economy Lee Ching Kwan memory socialism Tang Xiaobing Watson Rubie S Yang Guobin Ge Fei Han Shaogong history...

...Portraiture dominated the visual arts in the British Romantic period. It took a wide range of forms from oil and watercolour portraits, the miniature and the portrait bust, the caricature and the reproductive engraving. Through the latter, and a growing exhibition and dealing culture, portraits...

...This chapter uses innovations of print portraiture as a lens to examine William Hazlitt’s complex relationship with modern celebrity. While considerable attention has been focused on his role as a theorist of fame, a lot less has been written about his role as a producer of celebrity culture...

... own lifetime until the 1960s. Brett’s portraiture of Lawrence also initiates a study of the painted and photographic iconography of Lawrence made chiefly but not exclusively within his own lifetime, with a focus on the extent to which these suggest a Christ-like or a Pan-like aspect. A concluding...

...This essay explores how Yeats’s engagement with the culture of art amid which he found himself in the mid-to-late 1910s – set against the backdrop of local and global conflict and political rupture – coalesces around the prominence of portraiture both in his own poetry and the broader art world...

... Lyell Charles blackface minstrelsy character Combe Edinburgh performance phrenology portraiture racial science I was not a bad reader of the human face. Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom. 170 It was love at first sight. Frederick Douglass’s surviving letters don’t...

...This chapter looks at how later poets have negotiated with the precedent of Yeats’s ekphrastic verse. It outlines how portraiture operates as something of a master trope in Yeats’s poetics, and also notes a perceived homology in play between portraiture and the poetic genre of lyric. This forms...

...Focusing solely on the Bergsonian content of the joural Rhythm, this chapter identifies an intuitive, immanent conception of art from early experiments in durational portraiture to works that explore visions of a vitalist utopia. As a result, the chapter situates the journal...

... Josiah Royce Otto Weininger Genius Portraiture Contemporary literary criticism has largely turned away from hermeneutics to a constructivist approach. Stein’s work, which tends to be used as a test case for new critical perspectives, has been at the heart of this development. Astrid Lorange, in her...

... Escritoir Hilliard & Co Duyckinck Evert Cadell Thomas Illustrated London News illustration Johnson Thomas portraiture Anglo American Browne Harriet Chorley Henry Christian Keepsake Holl William Landon Letitia Watts Alaric West William Edwards Derby Mercury Garland Lootens Tricia...

... Andrew social media British Library Brown Susan Orlando Women’s Writing in the British Isles reprinting W & R Chambers Archive Maclise Daniel portraiture Woman Question Athenaeum celebrity Critic fiction Hendriks Rose Ellen historical writing Landon Letitia National Portrait Gallery...

... and tourism. Part two opens up wider questions of access and audience, by addressing collecting and patronage, portraiture, exhibition culture and consumerism, visual spectacles such as the panorama, theatre and the visual arts, building for art (galleries and other spaces for viewing art), public lectures...

... forms Proust Marcel Schulman Grace de Chirico Giorgio Dickinson Emily Magallanes Nicholas Noguchi Isamu Orpheus ballet Tradition Literary history T. S. Eliot Baudelaire Virginia Woolf Form of life Edmund McKnight Kauffer Photography George Platt Lynes Modernist portraiture Between...

... emphasis on visual spectacle and scenic effects and performance that was articulated across different modes of visuality and modes of looking. An alternative model for conceptualising the synergies and tensions between painting, especially portraiture, and theatre would be to re-envisage the relationship...

... de Castiglione Gaspard and Charles Deburau Masquerade Persona Les Nadars Portraiture and Gesture Toulouse-Lautrec Theorists and historians of Modernism are familiar with paintings of the face transformed and photographs of the head disguised. An image of total effacement, such as René...

... Netflix Nichols Bill Sconce Jeffrey Selfie Autobiography History of self-portraiture Self-performance Self-branding With smartphone in hand, we can now share with others how our narcissism looks to us. The selfie chronicles a counter-Copernican revolution … everything once again revolves around us...

.... The frontispiece can be read as a mystical scene, a parody of royal portraiture, and a self-reflective device, shifting our attention from patron to painting. Cairo Bustan Qur’an Hillenbrand Robert inscriptions mysticism riqā‘ script self reflection Tarjama yi tārīkh i Ṭabarī Bal‘ami Bal‘ami Muhammad...