%0 Journal Article
%T A Phenomenology of Vision: the Self-Portraits of Jean-¨¦tienne Liotard
%A Williams
%A Hannah
%J RIHA Journal
%D 2012
%I 
%X This essay analyses the self-portraits of Jean-¨¦tienne Liotard (1702-1789). Interpreting these objects through the lens of Maurice-Merleau-Ponty's writings on art and vision, I argue that Liotard's self-portraits can be understood as artistic experiments relating to the fundamental phenomenological problem of seeing and representing the lived-body. In making this argument this essay re-evaluates the art-historical tendency to read Liotard's self-portraits biographically as pictures of his unusual life or as tools of self-promotion.
%K Jean-¨¦tienne Liotard
%K self-portraiture
%K phenomenology
%K Maurice Merleau-Ponty
%K eighteenth century
%U http://www.riha-journal.org/articles/2012/2012-jan-mar/williams-phenomenology-of-vision