THE SELF

In this broad cultural survey, James Hall brilliantly maps the history of self-portraiture, from the earliest myths of Narcissus and the Christian tradition of bearing witness to the prolific self-image-making of todays contemporary artists. Along the way he re veals the importance of the medieval mirror craze/ the confessional self-portraits of Titian and Michelangelo/ the role of biograp hy for serial self-portraitists such as Courbet and van Gogh/ themes of sex and genius in works by Munch and Bonnard/ and the latest developments...[Read more]