THE SELF

This broad cultural history of self-portraiture brilliantly maps the history of the genre, from the earliest myths of Narcissus and the Christian tradition of bearing witness to the prolific self-image-making of todays contemporary artists. Focusing on a perenn ially popular subject, the book tells the vivid history of works that offer insights into artists personal, psychological, and crea tive worlds. Topics include the importance of the medieval mirror craze in early self-portraiture/ the confessional self-portraits o f Titian and ...[Read more]