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

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.

Author

• Joe, Damen

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

Identifier

hdl:10292/148

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:openrepository.aut.ac.nz:10292/148