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

Dec 3, 2013 - If the conversation survives this admission, and I happen to mention that I'm doing a PhD, and I happen to mention that the PhD is in cultural geography, I might make an attempt at explaining how these things are linked. 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. I was due to But first, I had something more important to do: take a self-portrait in front of the “Lusaka” sign at the airport. In both “Self-portrait (Myself At Work)” (1933) and “Brown Girl After the Bath” (1931), the artist's subjects confront the viewer with a who's-zoomin'-who reverse gaze. Dec 17, 2013 - For I am no modernist — I have little interest in the idea of self-expression, and I believe that art is always a cultural product; I believe art actually depends upon communal values and activity. A 1978 portrait of “After I studied history at Bristol, I did my own PhD here, about the history of Handsworth – a work that was somewhere between cultural studies and history. Feb 10, 2013 - The view was colorful and warm, and in its midst Jews had forged a life and a history. May 23, 2014 - Born to an Iranian mother and a Kentish father, photographer Sarah Maple has contributed some arresting self-portraits exploring how women are portrayed in society, while Pakistani photographer Mahtab Hussain – no stranger to the mac – studies race to “humanise the British Muslim label”. Motley, Jr., was using paint on canvas to address such nuanced . May 28, 2014 - Amrita Sher-Gil (1913–1941) was an influential painter in the Indian modern art movement. Mar 9, 2014 - Against the backdrop of such belated examples of race-related “progress,” it is illuminating to flip through the pages of American cultural history and discover that almost a century ago, a black, classically trained modern artist, Archibald J.