The Self-Portrait: A Cultural History

by James Hall and James Hall

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 050023910X
• ISBN13: 9780500239100
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.4"