Reconfiguring the Portrait (Paperback)

Paperback. This collection of essays presents a new multidisciplinary perspective on portraiture in the era of post-digital media.This collection of essays explores the stakes of that seemingly anachronistic comeback. It reframes portraiture as a set of cultural techniques for the dynamic performance of subjects entangled in specific medial configurations. Tracking the portrait across a wide range of media literature, drawings, paintings, grave stelae, films, gallery installations, contemporary music videos, deep fakes, social media, video games and immersive VR interfaces the contributors interrogate and transform persistent metaphysical and anthropocentric assumptions inherited from traditional notions of portraiture.As technological practices of the portrait have proliferated across the media ecosystem in recent years, this canonical genre of identity and representation has provoked a new wave of scholarly attention and artistic experimentation. This collection of essays presents a new multidisciplinary perspective on portraiture in the era of post-digital media Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…