Während das Gesicht gern als natürlicher Ausdruck von Persönlichkeit und Charakter betrachtet wird, sind uns die Gesichter der nicht mehr Lebenden nur als Artefakte bekannt: als Produkte handwerklicher, künstlerischer, poetischer, medialer, technischer Verfahren.
Starting from inviting volunteers to tell a unique memory, I created to relive the past, to recover the future/ memory rubbing lab, a work that incorporates video, audio and interactive installations. In it, people can listen, watch, tell, and draw different memories. As experim…
My project is a reflection of “foreignness” in America. It is a collection of ten portraits, all of whom are women that has touched my life in some way. The project consists of two portions, the first portion is fragmented, the second portion is whole. I will reference to this t…
Joan Agajanian Quinn is a renowned Los Angeles art collector and journalist who established connections with various local artists. Quinn is most prominently known for her work on Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine and her relationship with well-known artists such as Ed Ruscha and…
Women living in colonial New York were poised at the crossroads of two global trade routes, the British and the Dutch, and so had access to a collection of goods and ideas unparalleled in either their fellow North American colonies or their European mother countries. As is evide…
Since its foundation between 1410 and 1414 the University of St Andrews has acquired what can be considered to be ‘artefacts of significance’. This somewhat nebulous phrase is used to denote items that have, for a variety of reasons, been deemed to have some special import by th…
Damnatio Memoriae terimi, 17. yüzyılda Roma İmparatorluğu'nda uygulanan hafızadan silme yöntemi için kullanılmıştır. Bu uygulamanın, Roma İmparatorluğu'nun kültürel hafızasına etkisi de oldukça önemlidir. Olumsuz etkileri bir yana aslında hafızadan silinmek istenen kişinin süreç…
The study of African photography has emerged as a dynamic and widely appreciated field over the last decade. However, much of the literature is related to the presentation of photography by Africans within museum and gallery contexts, with only a handful of scholars providing di…
Portraits, this book suggests, unlock the paradoxes of subjectivity. Nancy shows how the portrait, far from conveying a sitter's self-sameness, is suspended between proximity and distance, likeness and strangeness, representation and presentation, the faithful and the forceful. …
According to the defined canons of art technique, a portrait should be, above all, a faithful representation of its model. However, this gallery of 1000 portraits illustrates how the genre has been transformed throughout history, and has proven itself to be much more complex tha…
La 4e de couverture indique :"This book explores the range of images in Byzantine art known as donor portraits. It concentrates on the distinctive, supplicatory contact shown between ordinary, mortal figures and their holy, supernatural interlocutors. The topic is approached fro…
