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Suspended between likeness and strangeness, portraiture can identify an individual only at the moment of its advancement and withdrawal. Examining 36 portraits across two millennia, Nancy shows how, despite photograph’s ubiquity, the forms of appearing that define the portrait continue to mark the bodies and representations that dominate our world.

Table of Contents

Preface to the English- Language Edition vii
Introduction: The Subject of the Portrait 1
Jeffrey S. Librett
The Look of the Portrait
The Autonomous Portrait 13
Resemblance 21
Recall 29
Look 36
The Other Portrait
L’altro ritratto 47
Character 51
The Eye 54
Visageity 56
Mimesis 59
Withdrawn Presence 63
Ipseity 67
Theophany 72
Revelation 76
Divine Abandonment 81
Dis- figuration 84
Eclipse 89
Infinite Detachment 93
Coda I 99
Coda II 101
Coda III 104
Notes 109
List of Figures 125

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      Publisher: Fordham University Press
      Publication Date: 12/06/2018
      ISBN13: 9780823279944, 978-0823279944
      ISBN10: 0823279944
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      Photography: portraits and self-portraiture Literary theory

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Suspended between likeness and strangeness, portraiture can identify an individual only at the moment of its advancement and withdrawal. Examining 36 portraits across two millennia, Nancy shows how, despite photograph’s ubiquity, the forms of appearing that define the portrait continue to mark the bodies and representations that dominate our world.

      Table of Contents

      Preface to the English- Language Edition vii
      Introduction: The Subject of the Portrait 1
      Jeffrey S. Librett
      The Look of the Portrait
      The Autonomous Portrait 13
      Resemblance 21
      Recall 29
      Look 36
      The Other Portrait
      L’altro ritratto 47
      Character 51
      The Eye 54
      Visageity 56
      Mimesis 59
      Withdrawn Presence 63
      Ipseity 67
      Theophany 72
      Revelation 76
      Divine Abandonment 81
      Dis- figuration 84
      Eclipse 89
      Infinite Detachment 93
      Coda I 99
      Coda II 101
      Coda III 104
      Notes 109
      List of Figures 125

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