Tham khảo tài liệu 'the frontiers of theory of jews and animals phần 9', khoa học xã hội, lịch sử văn hoá phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Facing Jews 157 Figure Jan van Eyck segment focus from The Arnolfini Betrothal 1432 . The National Gallery London. Reproduced with permission. addition the mirror is for the most part inextricably bound up with the Finally within art s history and running parallel to the inscription of the painter as the guarantor of painting and therefore of painting s already doubled presence there is the recurrence of the image of Pittura within the frame in order to underscore any one work s connection to Painting as a generic possibility. A clear example here - one that is doubly interesting for a concern defined in relation the portrayed self - is Poussin s 1650 self-portrait. In each of these instances the presentation of self be it a portrait or a self-portrait will have been implicated in the project of art work. Art work becomes a complex site to the extent that these implications are configured as significantly different. Moreover art work as it will be used here is a term that allows for a general description of works of art that insist on material specificity. Work is an activity. Selves and works are the result of work. They have been produced. What matters therefore is the operative dimension within this twofold sense of production. Within art s work therefore the self cannot be separated from 158 Of Jews and Animals Figure Velasquez Las Meninas 1656 . Prado Madrid. Reproduced with permission. its presentation as part of the work. In other words it is not as though a produced conception of self is a mere element within a work which could be excised from a more general argument and questioned. If this were to occur then it would necessitate ignoring the presence of the self as already having been folded into and thereby forming part of a field of activity. A field a work here those which are part of either the history of painting or sculpture are not to be understood individually simply as works with the self as illustrative. This field is a site at .
