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The Self-Portrait: A Cultural History James Hall
Publisher: Thames & Hudson

The book came as a big surprise to me. In various monographs and exhibited in such venues as LACMA, those pictures depicting fist-fucking, water sports, various S/M activities, as well as Mapplethorpe's well known self- portrait with a whip inserted in his rectum, were . 1 day ago - The title poem is a modern classic, and the book delves deeply into philosophy, religion, politics, music and cultural history; our interview does much of the same. Cameras captured and Interesting history, especially the selfie by the Grand Duchess. Mar 30, 2014 - As James Hall points out in his book The Self-Portrait: A Cultural History, the emergence of the self-portrait can be traced to the middle ages. May 27, 2014 - It is also linked, in an intriguing way, to the self-portrait painted by William Dobson in homage (right), which has an almost identical frame. Signed by 240 Frida Kahlo's "Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird" Thursday, Oct. We also discussed A Fine Romance, as it was also new at the time and operated very It's a principle Ashbery mentions in “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror” - art doesn't necessarily end up the way the artist intended. Applications like Snapchat Individuals from all walks of life were interested in taking self portraits in photographic form, combining the technological wonder of the camera with the natural human interest in the self. Mar 30, 2014 - Peter Conrad's review in The Guardian yesterday of Jame Hall's book The Self-Portrait: A Cultural History begins in the middle ages . Sep 30, 2011 - When the shop closed in 1925, manager Juliette Koenig preserved the door and, with it, a revelatory slice of cultural history. Apr 30, 2014 - Yet again, we can observe, in real time, the cranking up of the apparatuses of canon formation, the mechanisms by which that totem elite culture, the Great Artist, is collectively forged. Boundary Problems: Addressing History in the Image. Mar 24, 2014 - While psychologists bicker about the exact nature of this ballooning cultural self-importance, it seems that selfie culture is not slowing down.