“亲笔签名的自我”:自由主义、浪漫主义和民族主义十字路口的传真签名和平版肖像,约1800-60年

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Tom Young
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本文追溯了通过平版印刷的全球扩张而普及的肖像格式的文化历史。这种形式结合了传统的肖像小插图和一个平版印刷的写真签名。这种“传真签名”的肖像让人想起了这样一种观念,即画中的人实际上是在自己的肖像上签名的——这不仅证明了描绘的真实性,而且显示了一种具体化代理的索引痕迹。文章认为,这种形式提供了一种特别有说服力的方式,可以在自由主义、浪漫主义和民族主义的政治计划中概念化和交流关于自我和社会的思想。然而,这种平版印刷肖像并不是简单地“编码”或“反映”这些新思想,而是技术革命的一部分,它分散了大众媒体的生产,从而重塑了这些新思想蓬勃发展的社会。通过将在传真签名肖像中发现的公众自我的各种表达与平版印刷在19世纪扩大受众和重塑概念化公共和私人生活模式的方式联系起来,本文认为,像“浪漫自我”或“自由自我”这样的既定学术概念可能会通过一种新的、技术材料的启发式来重新考虑:“平版自我”。
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The ‘Autographic Self’: Facsimile Signatures and Lithographic Portraiture at the Crossroads of Liberalism, Romanticism and Nationalism, c. 1800–60
This article traces the cultural history of a portrait format popularised through the global expansion of lithographic printing. This format combined a traditional portrait vignette with a lithographic facsimile of the sitter’s signature. Such ‘facsimile-autographed’ portraits evoked the notion that sitters had physically signed their own likenesses – testifying not only to the veracity of the depiction, but displaying an indexical trace of embodied agency. The article argues that this format afforded a particularly cogent way to conceptualise and communicate ideas about selfhood and society in liberal, romantic, and nationalist political programmes. Such lithographic portraits did not simply ‘encode’ or ‘reflect’ these new ideas, however, but were part of a technological revolution that decentralised the production of mass media and thereby reshaped the societies in which such novel ideas flourished. By connecting the various expressions of public selfhood found in facsimile-autographed portraits to the way lithography expanded audiences and reshaped modes of conceptualising public and private life over the course of the nineteenth century, this article argues that established scholarly concepts like the ‘romantic self’ or ‘liberal self’ might be reconsidered through a new, technomaterial heuristic: the ‘lithographic self’.
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