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Self-Representation in an Expanded Field.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lehner, Ace.
- Series:
- State of the Arts-Reflecting Contemporary Cultural Expression Series
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 electronic resource (228 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Self-Representation in an Expanded Field
- Place of Publication:
- Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
- Basel : MDPI AG, 2021.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Defined as a self-image made with a hand-held mobile device and shared via social media platforms, the selfie has facilitated self-imaging becoming a ubiquitous part of globally networked contemporary life. Beyond this selfies have facilitated a diversity of image making practices and enabled otherwise representationally marginalized constituencies to insert self-representations into visual culture. In the Western European and North American art-historical context, self-portraiture has been somewhat rigidly albeit obliquely defined, and selfies have facilitated a shift regarding who literally holds the power to self-image. Like self-portraits, not all selfies are inherently aesthetically or conceptually rigorous or avant-guard. But, –as this project aims to do address via a variety of interdisciplinary approaches– selfies have irreversibly impacted visual culture, contemporary art, and portraiture in particular. Selfies propose new modes of self-imaging, forward emerging aesthetics and challenge established methods, they prove that as scholars and image-makers it is necessary to adapt and innovate in order to contend with the most current form of self-representation to date. The essays gathered herein will reveal that in our current moment it is necessary and advantageous to consider the merits and interventions of selfies and self-portraiture in an expanded field of self-representations. We invite authors to take interdisciplinary global perspectives, to investigate various sub-genres, aesthetic practices, and lineages in which selfies intervene to enrich the discourse on self-representation in the expanded field today. Ace LehnerEditor
- Contents:
- Intro
- State of the Arts-Reflecting Contemporary Cultural Expression
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- About the Editor
- About the Authors
- Introduction
- From Self-Portrait to Selfie: Contemporary Art and Self-Representation in the Social Media Age
- Issues in Self-Representation
- Between Our Selves: Conversations on Race and Representation
- Feeling Myself: Loving Gestures and Representation in Mickalene Thomas: Muse
- From Self to #Selfie: An Introduction
- Selfie Shifts
- Race for the Prize: The Proto-Selfie as Endurance Performance Art
- Reflecting on Life on the Internet: Artistic Webcam Performances from 1997 to 2017
- Selfie-Wars on Social Media
- New Selfie Precedents
- "First Ever Selfie Cover!": Cosmopolitan Magazine, Influencers, and the Mainstreaming of Selfie Style
- Self-Image as Intervention: Travis Alabanza and the New Ontology of Portrait Photography.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
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