Portraiture: facing the subject

Contents

9. Kahnweiler's Picasso; Picasso's Kahnweiler / Marcia Pointon. 10. Rembrandt / Genet / Derrida / Sarah Wilson -- Pt. VI. The Authority of Portraiture. 11. Facing the past and present: the National Portrait Gallery and the search for 'authentic' portraiture / Paul Barlow. 12. The portrait's dispersal: concepts of representation and subjectivity in contemporary portraiture / Ernst van Alphen -- Pt. VII. What is a Portrait? 13. Pre-figured features: a view from the Papua New Guinea highlands / Marilyn Strathern. Introduction: facing the subject / Joanna Woodall -- Pt. I. The Sexual Self. 1. Homosociality and erotics in Italian Renaissance portraiture / Patricia Simons. 2. The ideology of feminine 'virtue': the vestal virgin in French eighteenth-century allegorical portraiture / Kathleen Nicholson -- Pt. II. The Social Self. 3. Sovereign bodies: the reality of status in seventeenth-century Dutch portraiture / Joanna Woodall. 4. Medical men 1780-1820 / Ludmilla Jordanova -- Pt. III. Likeness and Identity. 5. Photographic likeness / John Cage. 6. Photographic portraiture in central India in the 1980s and 1990s / Christopher Pinney -- Pt. IV. The Portrait Transaction. 7. She's got the look! Eighteenth-century female portrait painters and the psychology of a potentially 'dangerous employment' / Angela Rosenthal. 8. Inscribing alterity: transactions of self and other in Miro self-portraits / David Lomas -- Pt. V. Identity and Truth.