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James Hall on The Self-Portrait
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Excerpts from art critic, historian, lecturer, and broadcaster James Hall's lively and comprehensive cultural history of self-portraiture, including such artists as Dürer, Gentileschi, Van Gogh, and Kahlo. Surprising, questioning, challenging, enriching: the Pocket Perspectives series celebrates writers and thinkers who have helped shape the conversation across...
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Excerpts from art critic, historian, lecturer, and broadcaster James Hall's lively and comprehensive cultural history of self-portraiture, including such artists as Dürer, 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.
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780500027271
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 02 May 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Illustration: 27 Illustrations, color
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 116.0mm
Height: 180.0mm
Weight: 180g
Pages: 88
About the Author
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.
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