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Visual art and self-construction / Katrina Mitcheson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mitcheson, Katrina, 1979- author.
- Series:
- Crosscurrents.
- Edinburgh scholarship online.
- Crosscurrents
- Edinburgh scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Self-perception in art.
- Art--Philosophy.
- Art.
- Art, Modern--Themes, motives.
- Art, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (171 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- Drawing on the work of a range of visual artists including Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Francis Bacon and Louise Bourgeois, Katrina Mitcheson explores how visual art can help us to know ourselves, when the self is complex, decentred and partially unconscious.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Editor’s Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. The Self and its Vicissitudes
- 2. Beyond Narrative
- 3. A Corporeal Hermeneutics of the Self
- 4. Refusing What We Are
- 5. An Experimental Hermeneutics of the Self
- Conclusion
- List of Artworks Referenced
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on October 20, 2022).
- ISBN:
- 1-4744-0479-0
- 1-3995-0207-7
- 0-7486-9368-8
- OCLC:
- 1252425974
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