The Book of Portraiture
In The Book of Portraiture, Steve Tomasula further develops his exploration of the meaning of forms. Through its constitutive play on imitation –each chapter taking up a form of writing, in the larger sense of the term, and a genre specific to a given time–, The Book of Portraiture offers an origina...
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description | In The Book of Portraiture, Steve Tomasula further develops his exploration of the meaning of forms. Through its constitutive play on imitation –each chapter taking up a form of writing, in the larger sense of the term, and a genre specific to a given time–, The Book of Portraiture offers an original vision of innovation in art while questioning the notions of author and subject. A conception of culture and of our relation to it is conveyed through this expression of the contemporary emphasizing continuity in representations. |
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