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''Portraiture is the art of misrepresentation. It's the art of unlikeness. That's
why it's so difficult,' the narrator of The Sitters explains early in his fraught
and deeply individual account of painting from life (and death). As the work
of painting proceeds, he takes the reader into some of the concerns that have
come to characterise Miller's fiction: the dense matter of families and origins,
the mechanics of desire and the mediations and complications of art. Within
this larger frame, this paper will examine the novel's highly specific concern
with the labour of writing and painting, the duplicitous and unreliable crafting
of words, lines and images, and will focus on its insistence on the unstable
doubleness of words, things and selves.' (Author's abstract: http://sydney.edu.au/arts/australian_literature/images/content/conferences/miller_abstracts2.pdf)
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Like/Unlike : Portraiture, Similitude and the Craft of Words in The Sitters
Subjects:
- The Sitters 1995 single work novel
- Chasing My Tale 1993 single work criticism
- A Portrait of Absence and Silence 1995 single work review
- An Interview with Alex Miller 1995 single work interview
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