Abstract
Concerns with and reflections on self-portraits afford a perspective to glimpse numerous dimensions in social and cultural issues, including gender representation. Self-portrait is a record of the result of self-presentation. As a special artistic style, women's self-portraits have distinctive images and implications, and are irreplaceable in the consideration of gender issues. Women's self-portraits demonstrate female artists' unique pursuit in the constructions of self-image, performances of interpersonal relationship, and means of expression. Female artists' special connection to mirrors during the process of self-portrayal and their reflection on this relationship are an important approach to understand feminist ideas. The contradictions and conflicts of gender ethical thoughts contained in the paradoxical relationships, such as seeing and being seen, presence and absence, affirmation and negation, as well as the comprehensive thinking about gender relations, highlight the social and cultural significance of the study of women's self-portrait.
First Page
168
Last Page
178
Recommended Citation
Ling, Chenguang. 2020. "On the Perspectives of Gender Representation and Ethical Contradiction in Women's Self-Portraits." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 40, (5): pp.168-178. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol40/iss5/12
