Imaging identity: media, memory and portraiture in the digital age
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ANU Press
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Acton, A.C.T
Date:
2016
Language:
Englisch
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Imaging Identity presents potent reflections on the human condition through the prism of portraiture. Taking digital imaging technologies and the dynamic and precarious dimensions of contemporary identity as critical reference points, these essays consider why portraits continue to have such galvanising appeal and perform fundamental work across so many social settings. This multidisciplinary enquiry brings together artists, art historians, art theorists and anthropologists working with a variety of media. Authors look beyond conventional ideas of the portrait to the wider cultural contexts, governmental practices and intimate experiences that shape relationships between persons and pictures. Their shared purpose centres on a commitment to understanding the power of images to draw people into their worlds. Imaging Identity tracks a fundamental symbiosis -- to grapple with the workings of images is to understand something vital of what it is to be human
Figure 1.1: Portrait of Johannes Wtenbogaert (detail), Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, 1633, 130 x 103 cm.; Figure 1.2: Self-portrait as the Apostle Paul, Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, 1661, oil on canvas, 91 x 77 cm.; Figure 2.1: Left: Boatmen moored on a lakeshore, Adam Pynacker, 1668; Right: Proposal for landscaped cosmos, Sam Leach, 2010. ; Figure 2.2: Untitled #2, from the series Yooralla at twenty past three, Micky Allan, 1978, watercolour and coloured pencil on silver gelatin print, 27.7 x 35.2 cm
Figure 3.2: Birth & death, Lindy Lee, 2003, Installation Artspace, Sydney, inkjet print and acrylic on Chinese accordion books, installation dimensions variable. Figure 3.3: Aaron, Gali Weiss, 2000, solvent transfer, charcoal, graphite, 76 x 56.5 cm.; Figure 3.4: MotherDaughter (as self-portrait), Gali Weiss, 2008, watercolour, solvent transfer, charcoal, graphite, 75 x 75 cm each of 6 panels.; Figure 3.5: FatherDaughter, Gali Weiss, 2008, ink and watercolour wash, solvent transfer, charcoal, graphite, 52.5 x 37 cm each of 14 panels
Figure 3.5a: FatherDaughter (detail), Gali Weiss, 2008, ink and watercolour wash, solvent transfer, charcoal, graphite, 52.5 x 37 cm each of 14 panels. Figure 3.6: MotherSon, Gali Weiss, 2008, solvent transfer, graphite, 37 x 30 cm each of 15 panels.; Figure 3.7: MotherSon II, Gali Weiss, 2008, black & white and colour solvent transfer, 60 x 40.5 cm each of four panels.; Figure 3.8: MotherSon III, Gali Weiss, 2008, black & white and colour solvent transfer, 60 x 40.5 cm each panel.; Figure 4.1: Autumn song (still), John Conomos, 1998, SP Beta, 23 mins duration
Figure 3.5a: FatherDaughter (detail), Gali Weiss, 2008, ink and watercolour wash, solvent transfer, charcoal, graphite, 52.5 x 37 cm each of 14 panels. Figure 3.6: MotherSon, Gali Weiss, 2008, solvent transfer, graphite, 37 x 30 cm each of 15 panels.; Figure 3.7: MotherSon II, Gali Weiss, 2008, black & white and colour solvent transfer, 60 x 40.5 cm each of four panels.; Figure 3.8: MotherSon III, Gali Weiss, 2008, black & white and colour solvent transfer, 60 x 40.5 cm each panel.; Figure 4.1: Autumn song (still), John Conomos, 1998, SP Beta, 23 mins duration
Imaging Identity presents potent reflections on the human condition through the prism of portraiture. Taking digital imaging technologies and the dynamic and precarious dimensions of contemporary identity as critical reference points, these essays consider why portraits continue to have such galvanising appeal and perform fundamental work across so many social settings. This multidisciplinary enquiry brings together artists, art historians, art theorists and anthropologists working with a variety of media. Authors look beyond conventional ideas of the portrait to the wider cultural contexts, governmental practices and intimate experiences that shape relationships between persons and pictures. Their shared purpose centres on a commitment to understanding the power of images to draw people into their worlds. Imaging Identity tracks a fundamental symbiosis -- to grapple with the workings of images is to understand something vital of what it is to be human
Figure 1.1: Portrait of Johannes Wtenbogaert (detail), Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, 1633, 130 x 103 cm.; Figure 1.2: Self-portrait as the Apostle Paul, Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, 1661, oil on canvas, 91 x 77 cm.; Figure 2.1: Left: Boatmen moored on a lakeshore, Adam Pynacker, 1668; Right: Proposal for landscaped cosmos, Sam Leach, 2010. ; Figure 2.2: Untitled #2, from the series Yooralla at twenty past three, Micky Allan, 1978, watercolour and coloured pencil on silver gelatin print, 27.7 x 35.2 cm
Figure 3.2: Birth & death, Lindy Lee, 2003, Installation Artspace, Sydney, inkjet print and acrylic on Chinese accordion books, installation dimensions variable. Figure 3.3: Aaron, Gali Weiss, 2000, solvent transfer, charcoal, graphite, 76 x 56.5 cm.; Figure 3.4: MotherDaughter (as self-portrait), Gali Weiss, 2008, watercolour, solvent transfer, charcoal, graphite, 75 x 75 cm each of 6 panels.; Figure 3.5: FatherDaughter, Gali Weiss, 2008, ink and watercolour wash, solvent transfer, charcoal, graphite, 52.5 x 37 cm each of 14 panels
Figure 3.5a: FatherDaughter (detail), Gali Weiss, 2008, ink and watercolour wash, solvent transfer, charcoal, graphite, 52.5 x 37 cm each of 14 panels. Figure 3.6: MotherSon, Gali Weiss, 2008, solvent transfer, graphite, 37 x 30 cm each of 15 panels.; Figure 3.7: MotherSon II, Gali Weiss, 2008, black & white and colour solvent transfer, 60 x 40.5 cm each of four panels.; Figure 3.8: MotherSon III, Gali Weiss, 2008, black & white and colour solvent transfer, 60 x 40.5 cm each panel.; Figure 4.1: Autumn song (still), John Conomos, 1998, SP Beta, 23 mins duration
Figure 3.5a: FatherDaughter (detail), Gali Weiss, 2008, ink and watercolour wash, solvent transfer, charcoal, graphite, 52.5 x 37 cm each of 14 panels. Figure 3.6: MotherSon, Gali Weiss, 2008, solvent transfer, graphite, 37 x 30 cm each of 15 panels.; Figure 3.7: MotherSon II, Gali Weiss, 2008, black & white and colour solvent transfer, 60 x 40.5 cm each of four panels.; Figure 3.8: MotherSon III, Gali Weiss, 2008, black & white and colour solvent transfer, 60 x 40.5 cm each panel.; Figure 4.1: Autumn song (still), John Conomos, 1998, SP Beta, 23 mins duration
Imaging Identity presents potent reflections on the human condition through the prism of portraiture. Taking digital imaging technologies and the dynamic and precarious dimensions of contemporary identity as critical reference points, these essays consider why portraits continue to have such galvanising appeal and perform fundamental work across so many social settings. This multidisciplinary enquiry brings together artists, art historians, art theorists and anthropologists working with a variety of media. Authors look beyond conventional ideas of the portrait to the wider cultural contexts, governmental practices and intimate experiences that shape relationships between persons and pictures. Their shared purpose centres on a commitment to understanding the power of images to draw people into their worlds. Imaging Identity tracks a fundamental symbiosis -- to grapple with the workings of images is to understand something vital of what it is to be human
Object text:
Melinda Hinkson
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