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 worldrsquo;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 artistrsquo;s innermost sense of self ndash; 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 ndash; our face to the world.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. very helpful!By CustomerGreat resource for understanding the implications of design-build projects.
