Reconfiguring the Portrait

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.

Author: Abraham Geil
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 10/17/2023
Series: Technicities
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9781399525077