9781855143562: Self Portrait: Renaissance to Contemporary

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With 140 images from collections all over the world, from Van Eyck to Chuck Close, this book includes pioneering essays on self-portraiture by leading art historians as well as informative analyses of almost sixty major works. The artists are shown constructing their identity, setting the scene for their life and times and above all showing themselves as creative individuals often captured in the act of conjuring their own image in the studio.

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Anthony Bond is Head Curator of Western Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney and specialises in twentieth- century and contemporary international art. His recent book Body (1997) was awarded the inaugural Power Institute Award for the best book on art history. Joanna Woodall of the Courtauld Institute of Art is an early modern specialist and has written widely on portraiture and issues of realism. Her most recent publication considers virtue, the virtuoso in seventeenth-century Netherlandish art. Ludmilla Jordanova is a Director of the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Cambridge. T.J. Clark is Professor of the History of Art at Berkeley University, California. Joseph Leo Koerner is Professor of the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London.

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ISBN 10:  1855143577 ISBN 13:  9781855143579
Verlag: National Portrait Gallery Public..., 2006
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