Great Self-Portraits: 45 Works (Dover Art Library)
by Carol Belanger Grafton (Editor) – Paperback: 44 pages
Publisher: Dover Publications (October 1, 2002)
What does a self-portrait tell us about the artist? Find out
in this unique volume of 45 splendid self-portraits, encompassing
pen, ink, and charcoal renderings as well as etchings and engravings.
Subjects range from such 15th-century artists as Gentile Bellini,
Leonardo da Vinci, and Albrecht Dürer to a host of 19th-century
masters: James Whistler, Auguste Rodin, Vincent van Gogh, Berthe
Morisot, Aubrey Beardsley, and many more--Rembrandt, Rubens,
Goya, Blake, Pissarro, and numerous others. Artists, art historians,
and art lovers will enjoy discovering the emotions, character
traits, and nuances of personality revealed in these masterly
self-portraits. 45 b/w illustrations.
Cezanne, The Self-Portraits by Steven Platzman –
Hardcover, 350 pages (October 1, 2001) University of California
Press
Few artists painted as many self-portraits as Paul Cezanne.
Art dealer Platzman uses these self-portraits to explore the
artist's psychological profile, personal and artistic development,
and relationships with other artists and with women. Thirty-six
paintings and 24 drawings are reproduced in this volume, providing
the most comprehensive publication of the artist's self-portraits
to date.
Rembrandt by Himself by Christopher White (Editor),
Quentin Buvelot (Editor) – Hardcover, 256 pages (August
1999) Yale Univ Press
Scrutinizing his own features time and time again, Rembrandt
left an extensive pictorial autobiography-his surviving self-portraits
include 45 oil paintings, scores of drawings, and over 30 etchings.
This absorbing book explores how Rembrandt`s self-portraits
developed over his life span, why the genre was so important
in his work, and how his innovative style influenced his contemporaries.
H. Perry Chapman has produced the first comprehensive treatment
of the entire body of Rembrandt's self-portraits in their cultural
and historical setting and in the context of the artist's life.
Prevailing scholarship has tried to discredit the idea that
the self-portraits stemmed from any particular inner need, but
Chapman counters by presenting fascinating evidence that they
represent a conscious and progressive quest for individual identity
in a truly modern sense. "H. Perry Chapman, in my view, gives
us the Rembrandt we need in the 1990s. . . . [Her] sensitivity
to questions of style and expression, combined with original
research, leads to a conclusion . . . that `Rembrandt's lifelong
preoccupation with self-portraiture can be seen as a necessary
process of identity formation or self-definition'—in
short, autobiography."—Walter Liedtke, The Journal of
Art "Chapman is a graceful writer. Her arguments are balanced,
well documented, and vigorously pursued. . . . The publication
of this book is cause for gratitude and joy." —Thomas
D'Evelyn, Christian Science Monitor
Sixty of the world’s most famous artists’ self-portraits
are shown in full-page reproductions. Each includes a biography
of the artist; an in-depth examination of the portrait details;
and how it reflects the artist’s personality, ideas, and
place in the history of art. These 180 color images offer the
most intimate glimpses of these great artists’ personalities
and how they saw themselves.
Reader review: Very few books are able to penetrate into
an artist's motives for creating works of art. This one does.
Beyond the fact that the author offers convincing new interpretations
of Goya's great works, he does so with a style that is utterly
captivating, with language that is stunningly clear, with art
historical acumen that is brilliantly insightful. The book has
the look and feel as if Goya had written it himself. We enter
into the mind of one the most troubled and versatile geniuses
the art world has ever produced.
An ambitious exploration of the self-portrait from its inception
in the early fifteenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first
century, this groundbreaking book moves beyond the constraints
of art history. Self Portraits: Renaissance to Contemporary
allows us to share an intimate encounter with great artists
of the past. The artist once stood before a canvas and gazed
into a mirror; we, in turn, stand before the canvas looking
at what the artist saw in the mirror. For a moment , time and
space are collapsed and we find a reflection of ourselves in
the artist's eyes. With 140 images from collections around 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 each of the paintings. 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.
The self-portrait is an artist's most intriguing vehicle for
analysis and self-expression. Serving a dual role as both creator
and subject, artists are offered unusual freedom; as a result,
self-portraits offer special value and high interest for both
artists and art lovers. Mirror Mirror explores the role of the
self-portrait in the work of 40 women artists from the mid-17th
century to today. Filled with gorgeous, full-color reproductions,
this unique guide covers a wide range of media-from oil painting
to photography, woodcut to ceramic sculpture. Readers will discover
the rare work of major painters including Mary Beale, Gwen John,
and Dame Barbara Hepworth, as well as portraits by women known
primarily for their work in other media, such as photographer
Lee Miller and ceramicist Susie Cooper. Each of these wonderful
self-portraits appears chronologically and features fascinating
biographical details of each artist, as well as inspiring essays
from two leading art historians: Whitney Chadwick, who discusses
style, technique, and how the artist explored her own identity;
and Frances Borzello, who presents the historical background
and artistic context of each portrait. Whether you're interested
in history, art appreciation, or general women's issues, Mirror
Mirror offers a rare look into the work, intrigue, and genius
of some of the most creative women artists throughout the centuries.
The self-portrait has become a model of what art is: the artwork
is the image of its maker, and understanding the work means
recovering from it an original vision of the artist. In this
groundbreaking work, Koerner (fine arts, Harvard U.) analyzes
the historical origin of this model in the art of Albrecht Durer
(1471-1528) and Hans Baldring Grien (d.1545), the first modern
self-portraitist and his principal disciple. By doing so, he
develops new approaches to the visual image and to its history
in early modern European culture. Includes 220 b&w illustrations
and one color plate (the famous 1500 Self-Portrait). Annotation
copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, OR.
Great artists are renowned for their perceptiveness. In this
book, the painters turn their perceptiveness upon themselves.
Each painting reveals something of the character and spirit
of the artist and has been captioned to narrate the events leading
to its production. This superbly printed full-color book presents
a generous selection of the most talented artists throughout
history.
An exploration of painting through 2000 years of art history,
focusing on self-portraits by such artists as Leonardo da Vinci,
Rembrandt, Gorky, and Picasso.
This lavishly illustrated book is the first to explore the genesis
and early development of self portraiture during the Renaissance
in Italy. Woods-Marsden argues that artists represented themselves
on canvas in an effort to change both the status of art and
their own social standing.
Borzello traces women's self-portraits across eight centuries,
deftly weaving together art and social history, the biographies
of many women artists, and a wide selection of paintings, prints,
and photographs by women. While some of the pieces are primarily
of historical interest, there are some stunning works here,
including period works by such accomplished painters as Artemisia
Gentileschi and Rosalba Carriera and modern works by such little
known but talented painters as Zinaida Serebryakova and Lotte
Laserstein, and paintings by such familiar figures as Frida
Kahol and Paula Modersohn-Racker.
500 Self-Portraits by Julian Bell – Paperback:
548 pages Publisher: Phaidon Press (April 1, 2004)
A new version of a Phaidon classic published in 1937, this evocative
and fascinating book, now issued as a paperback, presents 500
of the world’s greatest self-portraits, arranged in a simple
chronological sequence from ancient times to the late twentieth
century.
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Artists' Self-Portraits
Great Self-Portraits: 45 Works
Cezanne, The Self-Portraits
Rembrandt by Himself
Rembrandt's Self-Portraits: A Study in Seventeenth Century
Identity
The Artist Revealed: Artists and Their Self-Portraits
The
Self-Portraits of Francisco Goya
Self Portraits: From Renaissance to Contemporary
Mirror, Mirror: Self-Portraits by Women Artists
The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art
Self
Portraits of the World's Greatest Painters 
Self-Portraits (Looking at Paintings Series) 
Renaissance Self-Portraiture: The Visual Construction of
Identity and the Social Status of the Artist
Seeing
Ourselves: Women's
500 Self-Portraits
