The Art of Self Invention: Image and Identity in Popular Visual Culture

by Joanne Finkelstein

Book Overview

Both an exploration of the ways in which we fashion our public identity and a manual of modern sociability, this lively and readable book explores the techniques we use to present ourselves to the world: body language, tone of voice, manners, demeanour, 'personality' and personal style. Drawing on historical commentators from Castiglione to Machiavelli, and from Marcel Mauss to Roland Barthes, Joanne Finkelstein looks to popular visual culture, including...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845113969
• ISBN13: 9781845113964
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.4"