Artforum, June 1st, 2006
THE BOOK OF PORTRAITURE BY STEVE TOMASULA TALLAHASSEE. FL: FC2. 324 PAGES. $18. This novel is a grand historical account of how the act of representing others always includes a representation of the self. It begins with Moses and ends with bio art. In between are chapters on the painter Velázquez, a psychoanalyst and his "hysterical" patient, and a group of characters brought together in tangled webs of digital information. By looking into how things are represented, Steve Tomasula explores the question of how the act of representation affects objects, people, and events. "It is only by payi...
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