The Subject in Art: Portraiture and the Birth of the Modern

"Catherine M. Soussloff has managed, in her philosophical and art historical reflections on the portrait in modernity, to bring important insights to our understanding of the relation between the individual and history. The 'individual' is the great enigma of modernist history. In focusing on the 'subject' in the individual as revealed and hidden in modern portraiture, Soussloff exposes many of the open secrets of modernist historical consciousness as well."--Hayden White, Presidential Professor of Historical Studies, Emeritus, University of California and Professor of Comparative Literature, Stanford UniversityCatherine M. Soussloff is the author of 'The Subject in Art: Portraiture and the Birth of the Modern', published 2006 under ISBN 9780822336587 and ISBN 0822336588.