"The Book of Portraiture "is a postmodern epic in writing and images. A desert nomad struggles at the close of the ancient world to inscribe himself into life, and centuries later a Renaissance artist attempts to overcome his lowly origins by painting nobility. Throughout Steve Tomasula's arresting tour de force, human beings seek to become what they are by representing it. Steve Tomasula. Novels Short Fiction Multimedia Essays Editor Criticism Readings About Open Menu Close Menu /5(K). · Steve Tomasula’s The Book of Portraiture is an intricate collage of desires, perceptions, and creations, reflective constructions of the hungers that make us human.
Steve Tomasula is the author of the novels The Book of Portraiture, VAS: An Opera in Flatland, an acclaimed novel of the biotech revolution; TOC: A New-Media Novel, and IN www.doorway.ru is also the author of a collection of short fiction, Once Human: www.doorway.ruorating narrative forms of all kinds—from comic books, travelogues, journalism or code to Hong Kong action movies or science reports. Steve Tomasula's latest book, The Book of Portraiture, published by FC2, continues his project, begun with VAS and IN OZ, to reshape the novel to accommodate technology, artistic, social, and sexual history. The Book of Portraiture is a cunning reply to the historicity that demands a response. Using the formal innovations of postmodernism with a naturalistic treatment of historical. Steve Tomasula. 87 likes. Steve Tomasula, author, novelist. The Book of Portraiture; VAS: An Opera in Flatland; IN OZ; TOC: A New-Media Novel. Once Human: Stories.
Steve Tomasula is the author of the novels The Book of Portraiture (FC2); VAS: An Opera in Flatland (University of Chicago Press), an acclaimed novel of the biotech revolution; TOC: A New-Media Novel (winner of the Mary Shelly Award for Excellence in Fiction and the E-Lit Best Book of the Year Award); and INOZ (University of Chicago Press). "The Book of Portraiture" is a novel about the irrepressible impulse to picture ourselves, and how, through this picturing, we continually re-create what it means to be human. "Once again, Steve Tomasula has fabricated an incisive and sly commentary on art's way of being in the world, and the manner in which it intersects, and conflicts, with. Steve Tomasula is the author of the novels The Book of Portraiture, VAS: An Opera in Flatland, an acclaimed novel of the biotech revolution, TOC: A New-Media Novel, and INOZ. He is also the author of a collection of short fiction, Once Human: Stories. His essays on art, literature, and culture have also appeared wildly.
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