Anti-Portraiture

Fiona Johnstone is an art historian, researcher and lecturer, specialising in the modern and contemporary period, with a focus on the intersections between art and visual culture and the medical humanities. She is Associate Lecturer in Cultural & Contextual Studies (Photography) at Middlesex University, UK. She has also worked at Durham University, the University of Warwick, Imperial College London, University of the West of England, University of the Arts London and Birkbeck, University of London, UK. Kirstie Imber is Sessional Lecturer in the History of Art & Screen Media at Birkbeck, University of London, UK, where she was previously Associate Research Fellow. Her research interests include the censorship of art, the intersection of law and cultural practices in the UK, and contemporary Iranian art.

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1. Introducing the anti-portrait
Fiona Johnstone and Kirstie Imber
2. Decapitations: the portrait, the anti-portrait ... and what comes after?
of portraiture
Michael Newman
3. An Anti-Portraitist in the Realm of Letters: Gertrude Stein's Theory of Seeing
Ery Shin
4. ‘A whole man, made of all men’: Giacometti, Existentialism, and the ‘Singular Universal’
Véronique Wiesinger
5. ‘Closeness, or the Appearance of Closeness’: Robert Morris’s Critical Self-Portraits and the Expanding Artworld of 1960s America
David Hodge
6. Subjects Unknown: Found Images and the Depersonalization of Portraiture
Ella Mudie
7. Subject/Object: seeking the self in Susan Aldworth’s portraits of schizophrenia
Julia Beaumont-Jonesvii
8.Hiding in Plain Sight: Gazing at Laura Swanson’s Anti-Self-Portraits
Kristen Lindgren
9. Filling the Narrative Void: Material Portraits in the Chilean Post-Dictatorship
Megan Corbin
10. Relics, Remains and Other Objects: Non-Mimetic Portraiture in the Age of AIDS
Fiona Johnstone

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