Constructing and Using the Portrait Sitting as an Art-Historical Research Object

Autor: Dawn Kanter
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Aesthetic Investigations, Vol 6, Iss 2 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2352-2704
DOI: 10.58519/aesthinv.v6i2.16887
Popis: Portraiture is said to have evolved from a collaborative social practice to an artist-centric one. I challenge this view by focusing on the portrait sitting. I develop a portrait-sitting ontology, and a portrait-sitting database. I do so with reference to works in London's National Portrait Gallery, because the gallery features noteworthy sitters, leading to rich interpersonal exchanges during sittings. An approach from my portrait-sitting database shows the contributions of sitters to portrait production, calls attention to shared social and cultural ideas behind particular types of portrait production, and supports new interpretations of portraits and new periodisations of portraiture.
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