Art History: Portraits/Self Portraits. 4

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This course focuses thematically on the genres of portraiture and self-portraiture in the history of art. It explores portraiture and self-portraiture by considering related theories and the work of individual artists. How is a photographic portrait different from a painted portrait? What aspects of identity can be communicated in portraits and/or self-portraits? These issues will be among those addressed as we examine artists? intentions, their relationships to their subjects, and the resulting expression, in addition to the viewer?s response.