Essays in Self-Portraiture

A Comparison of Technique in the Self-Portraits of Montaigne and Rembrandt

Andrew Small (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

146 Seiten

1996
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8204-2789-8 (ISBN)

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Essays in Self-Portraiture is the first book-length study devoted entirely to comparing the written self-portrait of Montaigne with the painted self-portraits of another artist, Rembrandt. The author begins by examining the nature of self-portraiture, which he defines in relationship to biography, autobiography and portraiture. Thereafter he examines the origin and nature of self-portraiture as a toponymical phenomenon. By pairing specific self-portraits, the author compares Rembrandt and Montaigne in terms of courtiership and in terms of religious wisdom and ignorance. The book closes by showing how both artists used dissimilarity in their self-portraits. By selectively embracing and rejecting certain exemplars, Montaigne and Rembrandt constructed two of our most complete examples of the early modern self.

The Author: Andrew Small received his Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has published on literature and the visual arts in numerous journals. He is currently an assistant professor of French at the University of Houston.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.2.1996
Reihe/Serie	Renaissance and Baroque ; 19
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 230 mm
Gewicht	400 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Romanistik
ISBN-10	0-8204-2789-6 / 0820427896
ISBN-13	978-0-8204-2789-8 / 9780820427898
Zustand	Neuware