The Self-Portrait: A Cultural History
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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 Vel zquez; the role of biography and geography for serial self-portraitists such as Courbet and Van Gogh; the multiple selves of modern and contemporary artists such as Cahun and Sherman; and recent developments in the era of globalization Comprehensive and beautifully illustrated, the book features the work of a wide range of artists including Beckmann, Caravaggio, D rer, Gentileschi, Ghiberti, Giotto, Goya, Kahlo, Kauffman, Magritte, Mantegna, Picasso, Poussin, Raphael, Rembrandt and Van Eyck. The full range of the subject is explored, including comic and caricature self-portraits, "invented" or imaginary self-portraits, and important collections of self-portraiture such as that of the Medici.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:050023910X
ISBN13:9780500239100
Release Date:April 2014
Publisher:Thames & Hudson
Length:288 Pages
Weight:1.85 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 6.3" x 9.4"
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