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- catalog abstract "This fresh, richly illustrated book is the first in-depth presentation of how women artists have chosen to picture themselves. Beginning with the self-portraits of nuns in medieval illuminated manuscripts, Borzello reconstructs an overlooked genre and provides essential contextual information. She moves on to sixteenth-century Italy, where Sofonisba Anguissola painted one of the longest known series of self-portraits, recording her features from adolescence to old age. In 1630, Artemisia Gentileschi depicted herself as the personification of painting, and at the same time in the Netherlands Judith Leyster portrayed herself at her easel, as a relaxed, self-assured professional. In the 1700s, women from Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun to Angelica Kauffman conveyed, each in her own way, ideas of femininity and the artist's passion for her chosen field. And in the nineteenth century, as the doors to art schools began to open to women, self-portraits by the likes of Berthe Morisot, Marie Bashkirtseff, and photographers such as Alice Austen resonated with a newfound self-confidence. Seeing Ourselves concludes with the breaking of taboos in the twentieth century. Paula Modersohn-Becker imagines herself pregnant in her fantasy nude of 1906; Alice Neel paints herself naked at the age of eighty; and Frida Kahlo explicitly renders her own physical pain in a self-portrait complete with nails piercing her skin. And in recent decades, Cindy Sherman explores identity by transforming herself over and over into a cast of different characters, posing the questions that all the women in this enthralling book have faced when "seeing" themselves.".
- catalog contributor b10714129.
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: the presentation of self -- The sixteenth century: in the beginning -- The seventeenth century: the new self-confidence -- The eighteenth century: professionals and amateurs -- The nineteenth century: the opening door -- The twentieth century: breaking taboos -- Conclusion: drawing breath.".
- catalog description "This fresh, richly illustrated book is the first in-depth presentation of how women artists have chosen to picture themselves. Beginning with the self-portraits of nuns in medieval illuminated manuscripts, Borzello reconstructs an overlooked genre and provides essential contextual information. She moves on to sixteenth-century Italy, where Sofonisba Anguissola painted one of the longest known series of self-portraits, recording her features from adolescence to old age. In 1630, Artemisia Gentileschi depicted herself as the personification of painting, and at the same time in the Netherlands Judith Leyster portrayed herself at her easel, as a relaxed, self-assured professional. In the 1700s, women from Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun to Angelica Kauffman conveyed, each in her own way, ideas of femininity and the artist's passion for her chosen field. And in the nineteenth century, as the doors to art schools began to open to women, self-portraits by the likes of Berthe Morisot, Marie Bashkirtseff, and photographers such as Alice Austen resonated with a newfound self-confidence. Seeing Ourselves concludes with the breaking of taboos in the twentieth century. Paula Modersohn-Becker imagines herself pregnant in her fantasy nude of 1906; Alice Neel paints herself naked at the age of eighty; and Frida Kahlo explicitly renders her own physical pain in a self-portrait complete with nails piercing her skin. And in recent decades, Cindy Sherman explores identity by transforming herself over and over into a cast of different characters, posing the questions that all the women in this enthralling book have faced when "seeing" themselves.".
- catalog extent "224 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Seeing ourselves.".
- catalog identifier "0810941880 (cloth)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Seeing ourselves.".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Harry N. Abrams, Inc.,".
- catalog relation "Seeing ourselves.".
- catalog subject "704/.042 21".
- catalog subject "N71 .B673 1998".
- catalog subject "N7311 .B67 1998".
- catalog subject "Self-perception in women.".
- catalog subject "Women artists Portraits.".
- catalog subject "Women artists Psychology.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: the presentation of self -- The sixteenth century: in the beginning -- The seventeenth century: the new self-confidence -- The eighteenth century: professionals and amateurs -- The nineteenth century: the opening door -- The twentieth century: breaking taboos -- Conclusion: drawing breath.".
- catalog title "Seeing ourselves : women's self-portraits / Frances Borzello.".
- catalog type "Portraits. fast".
- catalog type "text".