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A Face to the World - On Self-Portraits (Paperback)
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A Face to the World - On Self-Portraits (Paperback)
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Focusing on the art of self-portraiture, this effortlessly engaging
exploration of the lives of artists sheds fascinating light on some
of the most extraordinary portraits in art history. Self-portraits
catch your eye. They seem to do it deliberately. Walk into any art
gallery and they draw attention to themselves. Come across them in
the world's museums and you get a strange shock of recognition,
rather like glimpsing your own reflection. For in picturing
themselves artists reveal something far deeper than their own
physical looks: the truth about how they hope to be viewed by the
world, and how they wish to see themselves. In this beautifully
written and lavishly illustrated book, Laura Cumming, art critic of
the Observer, investigates the drama of the self-portrait, from
Durer, Rembrandt and Velazquez to Munch, Picasso, Warhol and the
present day. She considers how and why self-portraits look as they
do and what they reveal about the artist's innermost sense of self
- as well as the curious ways in which they may imitate our
behaviour in real life. Drawing on art, literature, history,
philosophy and biography to examine the creative process in an
entirely fresh way, Cumming offers a riveting insight into the
intimate truths and elaborate fictions of self-portraiture and the
lives of those who practise it. A work of remarkable depth, scope
and power, this is a book for anyone who has ever wondered about
the strange dichotomy between the innermost self and the self we
choose to present for posterity - our face to the world.
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