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

1 day ago - I Am Mariah,” the drawing is “a personal treasure: my first and only self-portrait. Mar 27, 2014 - A new exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery will explore this very theme, through photography, history and popular culture 'Cool is the opposite of innocence or virtue. As a result, many of his pieces refer back to Renaissance works in their form, while thematically reflecting modern popular culture. In his highly recognizable 1961 oil painting “Self-Portrait with Badges,” Blake inserts himself into American pop culture through his denim attire, Chuck Taylors, and Elvis magazine. May 29, 2014 - A version of this article appears in print on 05/30/2014, on page C14 of the NewYork edition with the headline: Calmly, Snowden Paints A Self-Portrait on NBC. 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. Matt Ferranto “Digital Self-Fashioning in Cyberspace: The New Digital Self-Portrait,” from A History of Visual Culture. She is writing a book on the album Donny Hathaway Live (Bloomsbury 33⅓ series) and a musical-literary history of soul. Angeliki Avgitidou is a Greek artist who is based in Britain and has written a book “Performances of the self” considering the self-portrait and the digital evolution and how these two affected each other. Motley, Jr., was using paint on canvas to address such nuanced . May 12, 2014 - (“Matthew Berk: Digital Self-Fashioning”, Phil Windley). Enter: MSUM professor John Volk, a former resident of Manhattan and a man with a superb Matthew Sprung's background in graphic design informs his fine art approach to portraiture. Oct 15, 2013 - Blake sought to combine his appreciation for the seminal works in art history with modern consumer and popular culture. 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. Sep 6, 2009 - Area institution Minnesota State University Moorhead has a venerable history of promoting the humanities, and in the arts, MSUM has a reputation of providing a rigorous studio art and graphic design program. May 11, 2014 - Several aspects of this project should move it beyond the context of performance based works that explore cultural identity and history. Feb 14, 2014 - Before skyscrapers forever transformed urban landscapes, the conveyance that made them possible had to be created. Sep 30, 2011 - When the shop closed in 1925, manager Juliette Koenig preserved the door and, with it, a revelatory slice of cultural history. His gigantic pixelated self-portrait—about 12x15 feet—references the technological age. Apr 11, 2014 - Sadness Never Loneliness: A self-portrait of the artist as a desperate bride, addressing the cultural expectation that every young woman desires marriage. Signed by 240 Frida Kahlo's "Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird" Thursday, Oct.