The self-portrait : a cultural history / James Hall.

• Medieval origins -- A craze for mirrors -- The artist in society -- The renaissance artist as hero -- Mock-heroic self-portraits -- The artist's studio -- At the crossroads -- Coming home : into the nineteenth century -- Sex and genius -- Beyond the face : modern and contemporary self-portraits.

• In this broad cultural survey, art historian and critic James Hall brilliantly maps the history of self-portraiture, from the earliest myths of Narcissus to the prolific self-image-making of contemporary artists. His intelligent and vivid account shows how artists' depictions of themselves have been part of a continuing tradition that reaches back for centuries. Along the way he reveals the importance of the medieval 'mirror craze'; the explosion of the genre during the Renaissance; the confessional self-portraits of Titian and Michelangelo; the role of biography for serial self-portraitists such as Courbet and van Gogh; themes of sex and genius in works by Munch, Bonnard and Modersohn-Becker; and the latest developments of the genre in the era of globalization. The full range of self-portraits is covered here, from comic and caricature self-portraits to 'invented' or imaginary ones, as well as key collections of self-portraiture such as that of the Medici in Florence. Throughout, Hall asks why - and when - artists have chosen to make self-portraits, and looks deeply into the worlds and mindsets of the artists who have created them. Comprehensive and beautifully illustrated, the book features the work of a wide range of artists including Alberti, Caravaggio, Courbet, Dürer, Emin, Gauguin, Giotto, Goya, Kahlo, Koons, Magritte, Mantegna, Picasso, Raphael, Rembrandt and Warhol. Offering a rich and lively history, The Self-Portrait is an essential read for all those interested in this most enduringly popular and humane of art forms.--Publisher. 

Ämnesord

Självporträtt  (sao)

Porträttkonst  (sao)

Konstnärer  (sao)

Historia  (sao)

Self-portraits.  (LCSH)

Art appreciation.  (LCSH)

Artists  -- Portraits. (LCSH)

Self-portraits  -- History. (LCSH)

Portraits  -- History. (LCSH)

Self-portraits.  (fast)

Konstvetenskap  -- konstnärer -- konstnärer: män (kao)

History of art  -- self-portraits -- artists -- artists: men (kao//eng)

Portraits  (LCSH)

Portrait drawing  (LCSH)

Artists  (LCSH)

History  (LCSH)

Self-portraits  (LCSH)

Genre

History.  (fast)

Personnamn

Anguissola, Sofonisba, ca. 1532 or 3-1625

Kahlo, Frida, 1907-1954

Emin, Tracey, 1963-

Gentileschi, Artemisia, 1593-1652

Damer, Anne Seymour

Modersohn-Becker, Paula, 1876-1907

Kollwitz, Käthe, 1867-1945

Cahun, Claude, 1894-1954

Sherman, Cindy, 1954-

Kauffmann, Angelica, 1741-1807

Klassifikation

N7618 (LCC)

757 (DDC)

Ibv (kssb/8 (machine generated))