James Hall on The Self-Portrait
Published on 2. May 2024
Book
Hardback
88 pages
978-0-500-02727-1 (ISBN)
Description
Excerpts from art critic, historian, lecturer and broadcaster James Hall's lively and comprehensive cultural history of self-portraiture, including such artists as Duerer, Gentileschi, Van Gogh and Kahlo.
Surprising, questioning, challenging, enriching: the Pocket Perspectives series celebrates writers and thinkers who have helped shape the conversation across the arts. Mixing classic and contemporary texts, reissues and abridgements, these are bite-sized, fully illustrated reads in an attractive, affordable and highly collectable package.
Surprising, questioning, challenging, enriching: the Pocket Perspectives series celebrates writers and thinkers who have helped shape the conversation across the arts. Mixing classic and contemporary texts, reissues and abridgements, these are bite-sized, fully illustrated reads in an attractive, affordable and highly collectable package.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Illustrations
27 Illustrations, color
Dimensions
Height: 182 mm
Width: 117 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
198 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-500-02727-1 (9780500027271)
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Person
James Hall is an art historian, lecturer and broadcaster, and is a visiting research fellow at the University of Southampton. He is the author of four critically acclaimed books, including The World as Sculpture: The Changing Status of Sculpture from the Renaissance to the Present Day and The Sinister Side: How Left-Right Symbolism Shaped Western Art.