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Portraiture occupies a central position in the history of Western
art. It has been the most popular genre of painting and has been
crucial to the construction and articulation of individualism.
Despite this, its status within academic art theory is uncertain
and there is no adequate critical analysis of the subject
available. With an international team of specialists, including
Patricia Simmons, Ludmilla Jordanova, John Gage, Marcia Pointon and
Ernst Van Alphen, this volume provides a much-needed, comprehensive
and up-to-date introduction to the major issues in the history of
portraiture. The book's chapters are structured chronologically,
progressing from the Italian Renaissance to Dutch
seventeenth-century portraiture and on to Picasso, surrealism,
Lucian Freud and Cindy Sherman. Each chapter examines the key
developments in portraiture within each specific period, complete
with analytical subheadings, making this an ideal book for
students.
This volume is concerned with images and discourses of the artist in the Netherlands from the late 15th century until the mid 17th century, when the relationship between a community of craftsman and elite individuals, between consciousness of a native tradition and membership of international humanist society, between image and word, between hand, mind and spirit, were being actively negotiated.
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