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Mapping the Self-Portrait: Navigating Identity and Autobiography in Visual Art

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2007

Authors

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Redmond, Monique
Jansen, Monique

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Thesis

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Master of Arts in Art and Design

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Auckland University of Technology

Abstract

The thesis Mapping the Self-Portrait: Navigating Identity and Autobiography in Visual Art is a practical project. It explores the relationship between autobiography and self-portraiture, and how these notions of the self can be represented in visual art. The exhibition 360 Potential Truisms forms the major component in this thesis, and is accompanied by a written exegesis. This exegesis explores notions of the self-portrait and autobiography in relation to identity, with focus on a post-structural approach to fragmentation and movement. Artworks have been developed to reflect a shift towards an idea of the fragmented self, involving drawing, photography, and text to allow a constantly changing interpretation of self-portraiture.

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Autobiography, Self-portrait, Identity, Fragment, Movement, Drawing, Photography, Text

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https://hdl.handle.net/10292/148

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