A FACE TO THE WORLD/ ON SELF

Focusing on the art of self-portraiture, this effortlessly engaging exploration of the lives of artists sheds fascinating light on s ome of the most extraordinary portraits in art history. Self-portraits catch your eye. They seem to do it deliberately. Walk into an y art gallery and they draw attention to themselves. Come across them in the world's museums and you get a strange shock of recognit ion, rather like glimpsing your own reflection. For in picturing themselves artists reveal something far deeper than their own physi cal look...[Read more]