Reconfiguring the Portrait

Edited by Abraham Geil,Tom Jirsa,Toma Jirsa

ISBN13: 9781399525084

Imprint: Edinburgh University Press

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Published: 01/08/2025

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Description
This collection of essays explores the stakes of that seemingly anachronistic comeback. It reframes portraiture as a set of cultural techniques for the dynamic performance of subjects entangled in specific medial configurations. Tracking the portrait across a wide range of media literature, drawings, paintings, grave stelae, films, gallery installations, contemporary music videos, deep fakes, social media, video games and immersive VR interfaces the contributors interrogate and transform persistent metaphysical and anthropocentric assumptions inherited from traditional notions of portraiture. As technological practices of the portrait have proliferated across the media ecosystem in recent years, this canonical genre of identity and representation has provoked a new wave of scholarly attention and artistic experimentation.
  • Film, TV & radio
  • Graphical & digital media applications
  • Philosophy: aesthetics
  • Art & design styles: Postmodernism
  • General (US: Trade)
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