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Seeing Ourselves — Women's Self-Portraits
Seeing Ourselves — Women's Self-Portraits
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Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description
This richly diverse exploration of female artists and self-portraits is a brilliant and poignant demonstration of originality in works of haunting variety. The two earliest self-portraits come from 12th-century illuminated manuscripts in which nuns gaze at us across eight centuries.
Manylion y cynnyrch / Product details
- ISBN 13
- 9780500294024
- Gwales Code
- gwales.com.9780500294024
- Gwerthwr / Vendor
- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
- Long Title
- Seeing Ourselves — Women's Self-Portraits
- Sub Title
- Women's Self-Portraits
- Awdur / Author
- Borzello, Frances
- Current Price ex VAT
- £20.00
- Current Price inc VAT
- £20.00
- Availability Status (EN)
- Non-Stock Item - Ordered on request
- Availability Status (CY)
- Archebir yn ôl y galw
- Dyddiad cyhoeddi / Publication Date
- 2018-01-11
- Cyhoeddwr / Publisher
- Thames and Hudson
- Media Type (EN)
- Paperback / softback
- Media Type (CY)
- Clawr meddal
- Pages
- 272 pages
- Size
- 155 × 231 mm; depth 23 mm
- Language Code
- English
- Categori / Category
- CY: Bywgraffiadau a Chofiannau (yn Saesneg) | EN: Biographies (in English)
- Is-gategori / Subcategory
- CY: Bywgraffiadau - Benyw (yn Saesneg) | EN: Biographies - Female (in English)
Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review
In 16th-century Italy, Sofonisba Anguissola paints one of the longest series of self-portraits, spanning adolescence to old age. In 17th-century Holland, Judith Leyster shows herself at the easel as a relaxed, self-assured professional. In the 18th century, artists from Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun to Angelica Kauffman express both passion for their craft and the idea of femininity; and in the 19th the salons and art schools at last open their doors to a host of talented women artists, including Berthe Morisot, ushering in a new and resonant self-confidence. The modern period demolishes taboos: Alice Neel painting herself nude at eighty, Frida Kahlo rendering physical pain, Cindy Sherman exploring identity, Marlene Dumas dispensing with all boundaries. The full verve of Frances Borzello's enthralling text, and the hypnotic intensity of the accompanying self-portraits, is revealed to the full in this inspiring book.
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