The Subject in Art
Catherine M. Soussloff
ISBN: | 9780822388531 |
Publisher: | Duke University Press Books |
Published: | 13 September, 2006 |
Format: | ePub |
The Subject in Art
Catherine M. Soussloff
Challenging prevailing theories regarding the birth of the subject, Catherine M. Soussloff argues that the modern subject did not emerge from psychoanalysis or existential philosophy but rather in the theory and practice of portraiture in early-twentieth-century Vienna. Soussloff traces the development in Vienna of an ethics of representation that emphasized subjects as socially and historically constructed selves who could only be understood-and understand themselves-in relation to others, incl
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