HU Credits: 2

Degree/Cycle: 2nd degree (Master)

Responsible Department: history of art

Semester: 2nd Semester

Teaching Languages: Hebrew

Campus: Mt. Scopus

Course/Module Coordinator: Dr. Gal Ventura

Coordinator Email: gal.ventura@mail.huji.ac.il

Coordinator Office Hours: Wednesday, 14:30-15:30, room 6830

Teaching Staff:
Dr. Gal Ventura

Course/Module description:
This course will focus on the history of self-portraiture and modes of self-identity from the vantage point of historical, cultural and psychological theories. We will look closely at self-portraits from the renaissance until today, focusing on a wide range of types, including, among others, the artist as a creator, the artist and the white canvas, the artist and his family, the suffering artist, and the artist and death, while discussing the similarities and the differences between the self-portraits made in the past, and the millions of selfies photographed today.

Course/Module aims:
The course is designed to provide stimulating discussions on the issue of self-portraiture in art, while developing skills of critical observation of images and texts from various relevant fields of thought.

Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
The course is designed to provide stimulating discussions on the issue of self-portraiture in art, while developing skills of critical observation of images and texts from various relevant fields of thought.

Attendance requirements(%):
100

Teaching arrangement and method of instruction: Frontal teaching and active student participation

Course/Module Content:
the artist as a creator, the artist and the white canvas, the artist and his family, the suffering artist, and the artist and death

Required Reading:
reading assignments will be given in class

Additional Reading Material:
בן צבי, טל ויעל לרר. דיוקן עצמי - אמנות נשים פלסטינית. תל אביב, 2001.
גורדון, אירנה. דיו-איקון ; תערוכת דיוקנאות (קטלוג תערוכה). ירושלים, סדנת ההדפס, 2001.
גרינפילד-סנדרס, טימותי. תצלומי דיוקנאות (קטלוג תערוכה). תל-אביב, מוזיאון תל-אביב לאמנות, 2005.
הלר, סורין. תעודת זהות - דיוקן עצמי כתעודת זהות (קטלוג תערוכה). אגודת הציירים והפסלים,
תל אביב, 1991.
כהנא, ורדי. פורטרט ישראלי. תל אביב, 2006
עומר, מרדכי. עופר ללוש, דיוקן עצמי, 1977-2001 (קטלוג תערוכה). תל-אביב, מוזיאון תל אביב לאמנות, 2001.
רון, משה (עורך). שבעה סיפורי דיוקן. ישראל, 2001.
שטיינלאוף, ורדה. דיוקן ראשון (קטלוג תערוכה). תל-אביב, מוזיאון תל אביב לאמנות, 2003.
תמיר, טלי. יוחנן סימון : דיוקן כפול (קטלוג תערוכה). תל אביב, מוזיאון תל-אביב לאמנות, 2001.

Alarco, Paloma, The mirror & the Mask: Portraiture in the Age of Picasso. New Haven, 2007.
Ammann, Jean-Christophe and al. Lucian Freud: Naked Portraits. Ostfildern, 2001.
Bailey, Colin B. Renoir’s Portraits – Impressions of an Age (exhibition catalogue). Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, 27 June – 14 September 1997.
Bajou, Valérie. Eugène Carrière, 1849-1906 : Portrait intimiste. Lausanne, 1999.
Bauman, Felix and Marianne Karabelnik (eds.). Degas Portraits (exhibition catalogue). Zurich, Kunsthaus, 2 December 1994 – 5 March 1995.
Berger, Harry. Manhood, Marriage, and Mischief: Rembrandt’s ’Night watch’ and Other Dutch Group Portraits. New York, 2007.
Boggs, Jean Sutherland. Portraits by Degas. Berkeley, 1962.
Bond, Anthony and Joanna Woodall. Self Portrait: Renaissance to Contemporary. London, 2005.
Borchert, Till-Holger. Memling and the Art of Portraiture. London, 2005.
Brilliant, David. Portraiture. Cambridge, 1991.
Brown, Katherine. The Painter’s Reflection: Self-Portraiture in Renaissance Venice, 1458-1625. Firenze 2000.
Brown, Marilyn R. “Manet’s Old Musician, Portrait of a Gypsy and Naturalist Alegory,” Studies in the History of Art, vol. 8, 1978, pp. 77-87.
Dickey, Stephanie S. Rembrandt Face to Face. Indianapolis, 2006.
Dillon, Sheila. Ancient Greek Portrait Sculpture: Contexts, Subjects, and Styles. New York, 2006.
Dorn, Ronald. Van Gogh Face to Face: The Portraits. London, 2000.
Edelsztein, Sergio (curator). Guy Ben-Ner, Self-Portrait as a Family Man (the Israeli Pavilon at the 51st Venice Biennale, June 2005). Tel Aviv, 2005.
Ewing, William A., and Nathalie Herschdorfer. Face: The New Photographic Portrait. London, 2006.
Gibson, Robin. Painting the Century: 101 Portrait Masterpieces, 1900-2000 (exhibition catalogue). London, National Portrait Gallery, 2000.
Grove, Nancy. Magical Mixtures: Marisol Portrait Sculpture (exhibition catalogue). Washington D.C National Portrait Gallery, April-August 1991.
Jensen, Ann Adams. Public Faces and Private Identities in Seventeenth Century Holland: Portraiture and the Production of Community. Santa Barbara, 2006.
Jensen, Margaret Robin. Face to Face: Portraits of the Divine in Early Christianity. Minneapolis, 2004.
Kirwin, Liza, and Joan Lord. Artists in their Studios: Images from the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art. New York, 2007.
Klein, John. Matisse Portraits. New Haven, 2001.
Le Dernier portrait (exhibition catalogue). Paris, Musée d'Orsay, 5 March – 26 May 2002.
McPherson, Heather. The Modern Portrait in Nineteenth-Century France. Cambridge, 2001.
Modern Portraits: The Self & Others (exhibition catalogue). New York, Columbia University, October - November 1976.
Morphet, Richard (ed.). R.B. Kitaj: A Retrospective (exhibition catalogue). London, Tate Gallery, June - September 1994.
Nairne, Sandy, and Sarah Howgate. The Portrait Now. New Haven, 2006.
Nancy, Jean-Luc. Le regard du portrait. Paris, 2000.
Natter, Tobias G. Oskar Kokoschka: Early Portraits from Vienna and Berlin, 1909-1914 (exhibition catalogue). New York, Neue Galerie, 2000.
Nochlin, Linda. “Gustave Courbet’s Meeting: A Portrait of the Artist as a Wandering Jew,” Art Bulletin, vol. 49, 1967, pp. 209-222.
Penrose, Ronald. Portrait of Picasso. New York, 1957.
Portraits de femmes, la femme dans la peinture au XIXème siècle (exhibition catalogue). Musée des Beaux Arts de Carcassonne, 17 November 2000 –
17 February 2001.
Posèq, Avigdor. “Five Allegorical Self-Portraits of Igael Tumarkin,” Jewish Art, vol. 12-13, 1986/1987, pp. 320-334.
Prideaux, Sue. Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream. New Haven, 2005.
Rainbird, Sean (ed.). Max Beckmann. London, 2003.
Rewald, Sabine. Glitter and Doom: German Portraits From the 1920s (exhibition catalogue). New York, The Metropolitan Museum of art, 2006.
Rideal, Liz. Mirror Mirror: Self-Portraits by Women Artist (exhibition catalogue). London, National Portrait Gallery, 2001.
Soussloff, Catherine M. The Subject in Art: Portraiture and the Birth of the Modern. Durham, 2006.
Springer, Peter. Hand and Head: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s Self-portrait as Soldier. Berkeley, 2002.

Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 10 %
Participation in Tutorials 10 %
Project work 70 %
Assignments 10 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %

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