Download or read book The Self-aware Image written by Victor Ieronim Stoichiță and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Self-Aware Image, Victor Stoichita challenges the received ideas about the linear progression of Western painting, from the Renaissance to the Baroque. Eschewing questions of style, he focuses instead on the painting as a framed, transportable and marketable object that is a specifically modern artistic medium. Arguing that panel painting, from its origins in the Early Renaissance, was a "self-aware image," Stoichita demonstrates that the artist and his art were often the theme of the painting. Stoichita offers a new and unexpected view of a period and the art it produced, once considered to have been definitively classified.