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The Self-Portrait: A Cultural History by James Hall

The Self-Portrait: A Cultural History James Hall ebook
Format: pdf
Page: 288
ISBN: 9780500239100
Publisher: Thames & Hudson

Nov 17, 2013 - I am really looking forward to Kenwood House reopening this month. A photo of a woman taking a photo while laying on grass Russia's State Museum of the History of Religion gave the campaign a lift© twitter.com/Museum_Religion. His doctor Eugenio García Arrieta nursed him back to health. Mar 31, 2014 - James Hall's history of self-portraits illuminates our narcissistic age of the selfie, writes Peter Conrad. Rosy Martin, a photographer and artist working particularly with self-portraiture, is not convinced. May 26, 2013 - Terror as subject-matter is common in both art and literature and has a long history. On recovering, the artist presented him with a painting entitled 'Self-Portrait with Dr Arrieta', the last of many self-portraits which shows the physician ministering to his patient. Jan 22, 2014 - A hugely popular campaign, MuseumSelfie, adds a curatorial charm to the global trend for self-portraiture. It's a beautiful house and has the most amazing picture collection. Apr 30, 2014 - Yet again, we can observe, in real time, the cranking up of the apparatuses of canon formation, the mechanisms by which that totem elite culture, the Great Artist, is collectively forged. Aug 5, 2011 - Therefore, a data visualization could be considered a portrait--at least at this point in Western cultural history. Mar 7, 2014 - And while we may sniff about triviality and self-promotion and a culture of narcissism, more and more of us are doing it too. Art tells its own story of horrors. Francisco Goya and Giovanni Battista Piranesi were the outstanding age of seventy-three, he had fallen seriously ill. It's got a Vermeer, a wonderful Rembrandt self-portrait, a couple of fabulous Van Dycks. Dec 17, 2013 - For I am no modernist — I have little interest in the idea of self-expression, and I believe that art is always a cultural product; I believe art actually depends upon communal values and activity. In various monographs and exhibited in such venues as LACMA, those pictures depicting fist-fucking, water sports, various S/M activities, as well as Mapplethorpe's well known self- portrait with a whip inserted in his rectum, were . Boundary Problems: Addressing History in the Image.