Portraits of Dussek from London and Paris

Title
Portraits of Dussek from London and Paris
Publication Date
2012
Author(s)
Davison, Alan
Editor
Editor(s): Roberto Illiano, Rohan H Stewart-MacDonald
Type of document
Book Chapter
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Ut Orpheus Edizioni
Place of publication
Bologna, Italy
Edition
1
Series
Quaderni Clementiani
UNE publication id
une:12188
Abstract
A portrait is much more than a record of a sitter's likeness. It is also a record of professional and social interactions, of personal and professional aspirations or pretensions, of constructed or wished-for personas, and doubtless many other things besides. Portraits of Jan Ladislav Dussek are a case in point; they not only record his appearance, however reliably, but they are also the consequence of a series of interactions and relationships mediated through the visual conventions of the particular genre and medium to which they belong. So, considering the possibility that any given portrait of Dussek may actually be less than a good likeness, its value may lie more in its potential to disclose motives and relationships than in its physiognomical veracity.
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Citation
Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760-1812): A Bohemian Composer 'en voyage' through Europe, p. 227-253
ISBN
9788881094783
8881094789
Start page
227
End page
253

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