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The subject in art : portraiture and the birth of the modern / Catherine M. Soussloff.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Soussloff, Catherine M.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- e-Duke books scholarly collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Portraits, Austrian--Austria--Vienna--20th century.
- Portraits, Austrian.
- Subjectivity in art.
- Self (Philosophy) in art.
- Art--Historiography--20th century.
- Art.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (207 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Argues that the modern subject did not emerge from psychoanalysis or existential philosophy but rather within early-twentieth-century Viennese portraiture.
- Contents:
- Introduction: the subject in art
- A genealogy of the subject in the portrait
- The birth of the social history of art
- The subject at risk: Jewish assimilation and Viennese portraiture
- Art photography, portraiture, and modern subjectivity
- Regarding the subject in art history: an epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-162) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822336587
- 0822336588
- OCLC:
- 317336136
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