The thematization of the author in the visual arts
Abstract
This article deals with the problem of textual self-reference, one of the avatars of artistic authorship, and its purpose is to reflect on some conceptual problems created by the “emergence of the Self” on the surface of the work of art. With this aim in view, it reviews concepts such as style, cinematographic author, empirical author and model author, notions that allow us to deal with the semantic implications that arise from the thematization of the author in his work. This approach try to look deep into the phenomenology of images (paintings, films, photographs, etc.) and analyzes in some detail some enlightening cases by authors such as Rembrandt, Rothko or Velázquez.
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