Self-Representation in an Expanded Field

Defined as a self-image made with a hand-held mobile device and shared via social media platforms, the selfie has facilitated self-imaging becoming a ubiquitous part of globally networked contemporary life. Beyond this selfies have facilitated a diversity of image making practices and enabled otherw...

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description Defined as a self-image made with a hand-held mobile device and shared via social media platforms, the selfie has facilitated self-imaging becoming a ubiquitous part of globally networked contemporary life. Beyond this selfies have facilitated a diversity of image making practices and enabled otherwise representationally marginalized constituencies to insert self-representations into visual culture. In the Western European and North American art-historical context, self-portraiture has been somewhat rigidly albeit obliquely defined, and selfies have facilitated a shift regarding who literally holds the power to self-image. Like self-portraits, not all selfies are inherently aesthetically or conceptually rigorous or avant-guard. But, –as this project aims to do address via a variety of interdisciplinary approaches– selfies have irreversibly impacted visual culture, contemporary art, and portraiture in particular. Selfies propose new modes of self-imaging, forward emerging aesthetics and challenge established methods, they prove that as scholars and image-makers it is necessary to adapt and innovate in order to contend with the most current form of self-representation to date. The essays gathered herein will reveal that in our current moment it is necessary and advantageous to consider the merits and interventions of selfies and self-portraiture in an expanded field of self-representations. We invite authors to take interdisciplinary global perspectives, to investigate various sub-genres, aesthetic practices, and lineages in which selfies intervene to enrich the discourse on self-representation in the expanded field today. Ace LehnerEditor
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-762702024-03-23T14:57:51Z Self-Representation in an Expanded Field Lehner, Ace Selfies self-portraiture social media art history representation photography contemporary art Intersectionality intersectional approaches identity aesthetics contemporary life consumer culture avant-guard thema EDItEUR::A The Arts thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AF The Arts: art forms::AFC Paintings and painting Defined as a self-image made with a hand-held mobile device and shared via social media platforms, the selfie has facilitated self-imaging becoming a ubiquitous part of globally networked contemporary life. Beyond this selfies have facilitated a diversity of image making practices and enabled otherwise representationally marginalized constituencies to insert self-representations into visual culture. In the Western European and North American art-historical context, self-portraiture has been somewhat rigidly albeit obliquely defined, and selfies have facilitated a shift regarding who literally holds the power to self-image. Like self-portraits, not all selfies are inherently aesthetically or conceptually rigorous or avant-guard. But, –as this project aims to do address via a variety of interdisciplinary approaches– selfies have irreversibly impacted visual culture, contemporary art, and portraiture in particular. Selfies propose new modes of self-imaging, forward emerging aesthetics and challenge established methods, they prove that as scholars and image-makers it is necessary to adapt and innovate in order to contend with the most current form of self-representation to date. The essays gathered herein will reveal that in our current moment it is necessary and advantageous to consider the merits and interventions of selfies and self-portraiture in an expanded field of self-representations. We invite authors to take interdisciplinary global perspectives, to investigate various sub-genres, aesthetic practices, and lineages in which selfies intervene to enrich the discourse on self-representation in the expanded field today. Ace LehnerEditor 2022-01-11T13:27:00Z 2022-01-11T13:27:00Z 2021 book ONIX_20220111_9783038975649_6 9783038975649 9783038975656 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/76270 eng image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/edition/2034 https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/edition/2034 MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 10.3390/books978-3-03897-565-6 10.3390/books978-3-03897-565-6 46cabcaa-dd94-4bfe-87b4-55023c1b36d0 9783038975649 9783038975656 228 Basel, Switzerland open access
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photography
contemporary art
Intersectionality
intersectional approaches
identity
aesthetics
contemporary life
consumer culture
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Self-Representation in an Expanded Field
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title_full Self-Representation in an Expanded Field
title_fullStr Self-Representation in an Expanded Field
title_full_unstemmed Self-Representation in an Expanded Field
title_short Self-Representation in an Expanded Field
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topic Selfies
self-portraiture
social media
art history
representation
photography
contemporary art
Intersectionality
intersectional approaches
identity
aesthetics
contemporary life
consumer culture
avant-guard
thema EDItEUR::A The Arts
thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AF The Arts: art forms::AFC Paintings and painting
topic_facet Selfies
self-portraiture
social media
art history
representation
photography
contemporary art
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intersectional approaches
identity
aesthetics
contemporary life
consumer culture
avant-guard
thema EDItEUR::A The Arts
thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AF The Arts: art forms::AFC Paintings and painting
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