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A Face to the World: On Self-Portraits by Laura Cumming (Paperback, 2010)
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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.Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-139780007118441
eBay Product ID (ePID)93363608
Product Key Features
Book TitleA Face to the World: on Self-Portraits
AuthorLaura Cumming
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2010
GenreBiographies & True Stories
Number of Pages320 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height246mm
Item Width189mm
Item Weight1210g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorLaura Cumming
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 26 Oct, 2021
Looking and reflecting on art.
The author is a gifted writer,well worth a readVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 22 Dec, 2023
Intensive research on a really interesting facet of painting
Beautifully written and a real 'page turner' of a fairly esoteric subject, as is Laura Cumming's book on Velasquez.....really terrific.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
