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- Title
How to Become a Picture: Theatricality as Strategy in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Portraits.
- Authors
Grootenboer, Hanneke
- Abstract
This article evaluates the usefulness of the concept of theatricality for the analysis of early modern portraiture. The hypothesis is that a clear sense of the subject's dualism apparent in seventeenth-century Dutch portraits is brought about by a particular deployment of the strategy of exposition, in the sense of 'standing before' and 'displacement', that results in open-endedness. Following Weber, Litvak, Nancy and Woodall, the point is made that theatricality can be used as an analytical tool that may enable us to unpack subjectivity as performance in the pictorial space in which that subjectivity gets constituted.
- Subjects
17TH century portrait painting; 17TH century Dutch art; COMPOSITION (Art); SPACE (Art); PERSPECTIVE (Art); PHILOSOPHY of theater
- Publication
Art History, 2010, Vol 33, Issue 2, p320
- ISSN
0141-6790
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-8365.2010.00746.x