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

May 16, 2014 - Starting with the Self Identity in Material Self: Performing the Other Within at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art by Magdalyn. 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. 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 . Jan 22, 2014 - It's a self portrait saying "I am so badass I can paint this with only two shades of white, three of gray, and no true black paint". By beginning with concepts of the self. Oct 25, 2013 - The class was tasked with creating a self-portrait collage; the assignment seemed straight forward enough. They didnt know the history of black people's influence on culture and made a big deal everytime I got a perm. Signed by 240 Frida Kahlo's "Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird" Thursday, Oct. Sep 30, 2011 - When the shop closed in 1925, manager Juliette Koenig preserved the door and, with it, a revelatory slice of cultural history. Any painter in that era would look at that, and first see skill. The larger exhibition, Material Self: Performing the Other Within, features eight international artists who create aesthetic propositions through photography as a means of coming face to face with their identity in terms of self, ancestral and cultural history, and the concept of their “other within.”. Sep 28, 2012 - I Am My Family is an autobiographical exhibition that features digitally altered self-portrait photographs. Boundary Problems: Addressing History in the Image.