Still Lives Death, Desire, and the Portrait of the Old Master
- Submitting institution
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University College London
: A - UoA32A UCL History of Art Department
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory : A - UoA32A UCL History of Art Department
- Output identifier
- 11435
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- ISBN
- 9780691164960
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This innovate book takes up the art historical tradition of the artist’s biography but to address an important but ignored aspect of artistic identity, the recognition of the face. Tracing the processes by which Michelangelo, Durer and Titian emerged in relation to facial appearance, this book, 300 pages long, offers sustained engagement with portraiture, self portraiture and monumentalisation, and builds an important dialogue between Renaissance and contemporary theories of the self and celebrity. It draws on unusual archival sources and considers how images of artists contributed to how they envisioned themselves as figures in a history that would outlive them.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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