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29 NOVEMBER 2016DAY WORKSHOP ON

PORTRAIT ANDPORTRAYING

POSSIBLE QUESTIONS FOR CONSIDERATION:

• CHANGING BOUNDARIES AND DISPLAYS OF PORTRAITURE

• CONTEMPORARY PRINCIPLES AND FUNCTIONS OF PORTRAITURE

• THE AESTHETICS OF LITERARY PORTRAITURE

• PORTRAIT AS AN ART OBJECT

• CONSTRUCTING, PERFORMING AND INTENSIFYING THE SELF THROUGH PORTRAITURE

• SELF-PORTRAIT AS A SITE OF THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL

• THE VISUAL PORTRAIT AFTER THE END OF THE SIGHT

• PORTRAITURE CRITIQUE AND EMANCIPATION

• PORTRAITURE AND GENDER

POSSIBLE FOCUSES MAY INCLUDE (BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO):

» IDENTITY » FACIALITY » THE LIVING AND THE DEAD

» METAMORPHOSIS » (RE)CREATIONS » DISGUISE

» DUPLICITY, SERIALIZATION, AND MULTIPLICATION

THIS WORKSHOP AIMS TO ENGAGE WITH CONTEMPORARY ACADEMIC DEBATERELATING TO THE THEME OF PORTRAYING, AND WILL EXPLORE HOW PRACTICESOF PORTRAYING ENGAGE REVELATION AND STAGING, ASSERTION AND INVENTION.WE INVITE REFLECTION ON CHANGING MODES OF PRODUCTION, RECEPTION,AESTHETIC AND CULTURAL CONDITIONING OF PORTRAYING PRACTICES.THEY ARE UNAVOIDABLY COMPARATIVE.

Department of English Studies

Research Center for 19th-21st Century Literature

Contact: dr hab. Teresa Bruś tbrus@poczta.onet.pl

tel. +48 605 380 332