... an alternative view by stressing the adaptive principles of the form, specifically as they concern citation, self-portraiture, and an implicit running dialogue with a spectator who potentially shares in the intellectual labor of montage. I offer a pointed discussion of the Essais of Montaigne in order...

... in what appears to be innocuous technical information. apricots artist Beale, Mary friendship literature portraiture reputation seventeenth century technical women On 14 August 1663, Mary Beale recorded her thoughts on how best to paint apricots. The manuscript...

...Levilson C. Reis Kahlo, Frida self-portraiture diary paratext Genette, Gérard the self the other Lacan, Jacques diary autobiography autobiographical pact Lejeune, Philippe Despite the generic classification that the title of The Diary of Frida Kahlo readily provides...

... eighteenth century interior portraiture Zoffany The emergence of the conversation piece in England in the 1720s and 1730s marked a significant break from the style of portraiture with which the century had opened, dominated by Sir Godfrey Kneller. 1 Instead of producing large canvases in which features...

...-midwives accoucheurs medical portraiture childbirth Louise Bourgeois France obstetrical treatises maternal experience © 2001 The Society for the Social History of Medicine On Display: Portraits of Seventeenth-century French Men-midwives...

...This chapter considers how photography emerges as an incomplete, iterative form of portraiture against an elusive subject. It looks specifically at Marcel Proust’s definition of modernist portraiture in À la Recherche du Temps Perdu as an incomplete, serial form. The narrator turns...

...Chapter 3 explores the methods by which composers have depicted themselves and their compositional styles in musical self-portraits. It views musical self-portraits in relation to self-portraiture in visual art to identify techniques shared by the two art forms. The chapter focuses in particular...

... familiar familiarity flesh George III idea illusion love lover loving marble mind naturalize picture Plato Platonism portrait portraiture Ramsay Allan sitter substance trick trickery Van Loo Michel Armenian artisan artisanal artisanship Bret contemporary copy copying copyist dislike...

..., the metaphor of self-portraiture tends to simplify the problems of linguistic representation and even to suggest that the face may provide a stable foundation for referential language in general. It offers a way of reducing the difference between words and things by suggesting that at least in this special...

... are to be inscribed in each other, and he sketches in broad strokes the intertwining histories of each. Inthe author's portrait of portraiture, the history of portraiture (which is illustrated with a selective Ahnengalerie, or gallery of portraits) gives access to a history of the subject...

... Cadbury family and company Penn William architecture discipline meeting houses plaining portraiture regulation visual culture This chapter is an exploration of the visual culture of Friends with the principal focus on two-dimensional figurative art and on the architecture and interior...

... Reid Nano Weir Grace Bourke Brian Cooke Barrie London Midland and Scottish Railway Company Souter Camille Duffy Rita Kindness John Maguire Brian Napier Philip Northern Ireland ‘Troubles’ Seymour Dermot Portraiture Art exhibitions Migration Foreign art Indigenous art The art...

... and caretaker for children of his employer at Brown-Buick Cadillac Company. The photograph compares favorably with studio portraiture of Martin Chambi of Peru, Mike Disfarmer of Arkansas, Seydou Keita of Mali, Doris Ulmann of New York, Richard Samuel Roberts of South Carolina, and Jno. Trilica of Texas. Brown...

...This chapter explores the drama of competitive posing in the group portraits of Frans Hals and Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn. It describes an interpretive approach to the poetics of group portraiture and its theoretical conditions by presenting nine premises. These premises focus on the portrait...

... Gertrude Stein cubism modernism onomastics portraiture Qu’est-ce qui fait du nom propre une sorte de surnom, de pseudonyme ou de cryptonyme à la fois singulier et singulièrement intraduisible? [What is it that makes the proper name a sort of surname, a kind of pseudonym, or cryptonym...

...From its inception, photographic social-panorama portraiture was invested with positivist content that, despite aesthetic shifts, remained intact until the 1960s. Engaging in an extended flashback, this chapter traces the threads of positivist, typological discourse from the 1960s back to the early...

...What Jesper Svenbro says of the amphora applies to the painted portrait in that both outlast their creators. But portraiture involves not only the painter and the painting; it also involves the patron and the sitter. The redundancy or recursiveness of this statement is its most important property...

... 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...

...This chapter examines self-portraiture in contemporary graphic novels and how they oppose the standard theoretical skepticism regarding the viability of cognitive mapping, or the ability to plot oneself in a social order defined by the arrangements of late capitalism. Autography's peculiar textures...

...This chapter describes research carried out in Delight and Earle. The portraiture method has been used here to investigate the roles of rural public schools in the two communities and to look at how these roles are patterned by historic racial inequalities and education politics. Portraiture...