![]() ![]() By offering a timely reappraisal of the terms through which this genre is approached, the chapter authors volunteer new paradigms in which to consider selfhood, embodiment and representation. The contributors to Anti-Portraiture examine subjectivity via a range of media including sculpture, photography and installation, and make a convincing case for an expanded definition of portraiture. Recent scholarship in the humanities and social sciences however has responded to the complex nature of twenty-first century subjectivity and proffered fresh conceptual models and theories to analyse it. ![]() Its purpose was to provide a visual or psychological likenesses or an expression of personal, familial or social identity it was typically associated with the privileged individual subject of Western modernity. ![]() The portrait has historically been understood as an artistic representation of a human subject. ![]()
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