vidéo : Excursus : L’autoportrait

For an artist, a self-portrait is not a portrait like any other. Of course, when an artist represents himself – and such representations have existed since antiquity, if we are to believe the ancient authors – the portrait he makes of himself is also subject to the rules and expectations of the individual portrait, which we discussed in the excursus devoted to it. His representation must be lifelike, both physically and morally, socially and expressively. However, as we have seen, the practice of portraiture also involves establishing a negotiation, or even a power relationship between the artist and the model, within the framework of a genuine politics of portraiture, whereas the self-portrait, on the other hand, involves only one person, which poses different problems.