## Rachel Esner (2011). *Presence in Absence The Empty Studio as Self-Portrait*. : . > [!INFO] > Type:: [[&]] > Title:: Presence in Absence The Empty Studio as Self-Portrait > Author(s): [[Rachel Esner]] > Year:: 2011 > Tags:: > DOI:: > Citekey:: esner_presence_2011 > ZoteroURI:: [Open in Zotero: Presence in Absence The Empty Studio as Self-Portrait](zotero://select/items/@esner_presence_2011) > ReviewedDate:: [[2022-09-23]] ## Citation ```latex [@esner_presence_2011] ``` ## Related ```dataview TABLE file.aliases AS "Title" FROM [[@esner_presence_2011]] and -"Plans" and -"resources" ``` ## Summary - ## Other Comments - ### Annotation - There are a number of varieties within this genre as well: for example, the painter may be absent, but the studio nonetheless occupied – by the model, the artist’s assistant, a visitor or visitors of various kinds (patrons, friends, lovers, even spies, but never, interestingly enough, dealers) (242) - But there are also studios that are entirely devoid of human presence, and their meaning is perhaps somewhat more mysterious. - But even if one accepts that these empty studio pictures are in fact born of a cogitating impulse rather than mere necessity, there still remains the issue of their significance. (243) - A self-portrait conceived in this way has a different value than one in which the artist depicts himself directly; it carries out, as I will show, a different kind of work in relation to the questions of identity and autonomy that play such an important role in the self-conception of the artist in modernity. ### Related ```dataview LIST FROM [[@esner_presence_2011]] and -"Plans" and -"resources" ```