Abbild : Recent Portraiture and Depiction

by Pakesch, Peter

• ISBN13: 9783211837221
• ISBN10: 3211837221
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-03-01
• Publisher: Actar-D

Summary

The representation of man has once again become the focus of recent art. Conventional depictions were set by precepts handed down from the early Renaissance, while art of the last century was concerned with annulling these same precepts. Now, new media such as photography, film, video, and electronic image processing challenge the accuracy of traditional concepts of the image of man, often with quite contradictory results. The figure and the portrait, for example, once seemed a thing of the past; now, however, various approaches in recent art suggest a wider view of man, his producibility and his reproducibility. This book presents a number of important opinions in order to illustrate the current state of human depiction in art.

Table of Contents

On the Exhibition	p. 6
What is Before the Portrait and What Comes Behind it	p. 8
Pictures many - Original (n)one? Aspects of the Portrait today	p. 16
Camera	p. 30
Picturessence	p. 38
Aesthetics of the Portrait	p. 192
The Human Face	p. 200
The Image	p. 202
Portraits/Genre: Thomas Struth	p. 204
Eigenfaces for Recognition Vision and Modeling Group - The Media Laboratory; Massachusetts Institute of Technology	p. 214
Index	p. 238
Author's Biographies / Credits	p. 252
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