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The Subject in Art
Portraiture and the Birth of the Modern
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English
Published/Copyright:
2006
About this book
Argues that the modern subject did not emerge from psychoanalysis or existential philosophy but rather within early-twentieth-century Viennese portraiture.
Author / Editor information
Catherine M. Soussloff holds the University of California Presidential Chair in the History of Art and Visual Culture at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of The Absolute Artist: The Historiography of a Concept and the editor of Jewish Identity in Modern Art History.
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“Catherine M. Soussloff has managed, in her philosophical and art historical reflections on the portrait in modernity, to bring important insights to our understanding of the relation between the individual and history. The ‘individual’ is the great enigma of modernist history. In focusing on the ‘subject’ in the individual as revealed and hidden in modern portraiture, Soussloff exposes many of the open secrets of modernist historical consciousness as well.”—Hayden White, Presidential Professor of Historical Studies, Emeritus, University of California and Professor of Comparative Literature, Stanford University
“[B]y tracing the genealogy of a way of seeing and a means of comprehending art, this is a valuable contribution to both art history and the history of Judaism. For writers on art, this book re-emphasises the importance of portraiture. For those who work on Jewish life and thought, it stresses the ways in which paintings were used to express identity. Resting on real research and deep thought, The Subject in Art forces us to look again at some familiar images and to think again about the ways in which we approach them. For that, it is sincerely to be welcomed.”
-- William Whyte Journal of Modern Jewish Studies
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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List of Illustrations
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: The Subject in Art
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1 A Genealogy of the Subject in the Portrait
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2 The Birth of the Social History of Art
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3 The Subject at Risk Jewish Assimilation and Viennese Portraiture
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4 Art Photography, Portraiture, and Modern Subjectivity
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5 Regarding the Subject in Art History: An Epilogue
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Illustration Credits
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Index
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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
October 4, 2006
eBook ISBN:
9780822388531
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
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192
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51 illustrations (incl. 16 in color)
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