By James Hall
ISBN-10: 050023910X
ISBN-13: 9780500239100
ISBN-10: 0500292116
ISBN-13: 9780500292112
This clever and shiny account exhibits how artists' depictions of themselves were a part of a continual culture that reaches again for hundreds of years. It finds the significance of the medieval 'mirror craze'; the explosion of the style through the Renaissance; the confessional self-portraits of Titian and Michelangelo; the position of biography for serial self-portraitists akin to Courbet and van Gogh; subject matters of intercourse and genius in works by way of Munch, Bonnard and Modersohn-Becker; and the newest advancements of the style within the period of globalization.
'There isn't a lifeless passage during this e-book: the element is crisply imparted; the content material richly arcane from time to time, yet extra frequently profoundly human; the tips come freshly coined.' - The Guardian
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