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The Subject in Art: Portraiture and the Birth of the Modern
The Subject in Art Portraiture and the Birth of the Modern
Author: Catherine M. Soussloff
Challenging prevailing theories regarding the birth of the subject, Catherine M. Soussloff argues that the modern subject did not emerge from psychoanalysis or existential philosophy but rather in the theory and practice of portraiture in early-twentieth-century Vienna. Soussloff traces the development in Vienna of an ethics of representation th...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780822336709
ISBN-10: 0822336707
Publication Date: 8/2006
Pages: 175
Edition: New Ed
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Publisher: Duke University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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