Subject-Author-Self-Portrait

The focus of my bachelor´s thesis is aimed at the connection of the functions of self-representation in arts during different periods in the history to philosophical concepts of the subject and concepts of the author. The anonymous creator of art (which was always socially legitimated) was replaced by the author brought to light with the birth of the modern subject. The ?mirror picture? of oneself in the other´s eyes is for the subject the essential constituting moment. Modern subject is above all ruling entity with all powers to control its representation and material world around. What happens to the subject when the logical modernist structures start to fall apart? Postmodern subject loses its contours and it becomes matter or the construct of a certain context. How is this connected to the invention of photography and the rise of masmedia and its machinery? And what will happen with the subject today, when everyone can have one´s own communication channel on the internet