Self Portrait A Cultural History

Name: Self Portrait A Cultural History
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ISBN: 9780500239100

ISBN-10: 050023910X

ISBN-13: 9780500239100

Edition: 2014

Authors: James Hall

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This broad cultural history of self-portraiture brilliantly maps the history of the genre, from the earliest myths of Narcissus and the Christian tradition of “bearing witness” to the prolific self-image-making of today’s contemporary artists. Focusing on a perennially popular subject, the book tells the vivid history of works that offer insights into artists’ personal, psychological, and creative worlds. Topics include the importance of the medieval mirror craze in early self-portraiture; the confessional self-portraits of Titian and Michelangelo; the mystique of the artist’s studio, from Vermeer to Velzquez; the role of biography and geography for serial self-portraitists such as Courbet…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Publication date: 4/22/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.40" wide x 9.30" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.804
Language: English