Best Self Portrait Essay - April 2024

Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror: Poems (Penguin Poets)

John Ashbery’s most renowned collection of poetry -- Winner of The Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award First released in 1975, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror is today regarded as one of the most important collections of poetry published in the last fifty years.  Not only in the title poem, which the critic John Russell  called “one of the finest long poems of our period,” but throughout the entire volume, Ashbery reaffirms the poetic power that made him an outstanding figure in contemporary literature.  These are poems “of breathtak... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0140586687
• ASIN: 0140586687
• ISBN: 9780140586688
• Brand: Penguin Books
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

Eisenstaedt on Eisenstaedt: A Self-Portrait

Eisenstaedt's comments on his career as a photographer accompany his photographs of politicians, scientists, musicians, dancers, children, and other subjects

• ASIN: 0896595153
• ASIN: 0896595153
• ISBN: 0896595153
• Brand: Brand: Abbeville Press
• Manufacturer: Abbeville Press

Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays

The “dazzling” and essential portrayal of 1960s America from the author of South and West and The Year of Magical Thinking (The New York Times). Capturing the tumultuous landscape of the United States, and in particular California, during a pivotal era of social change, the first work of nonfiction from one of American literature’s most distinctive prose stylists is a modern classic.   In twenty razor-sharp essays that redefined the art of journalism, National Book Award–winning author Joan Didion reports on a society gripped by a deep generational divide, from the “misplaced childr... [Read More]

• ASIN: B06XRSTBMN
• ASIN: B06XRSTBMN
• Brand: Unknown
• Manufacturer: Open Road Media

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• ASIN: B07S2J1DCT
• UPC: 304627353908
• ASIN: B07S2J1DCT
• Brand: Tini
• Manufacturer: Tini

Andy Warhol: Polaroids, Celebrities and Self-Portraits

This new catalogue documents a recent exhibition at the Starmach Gallery in Krakow, presenting Andy Warhol's Polaroid work during the last two decades of his life. The 65 color images here include Warhol's self-portraits - occasionally in drag or another kind of costume - as well as Warhol's pictures of celebrities and artists from all fields. Included here are artists such as Keith Haring, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Francesco Clemente, and Jean-Michel Basquiat; writers such as William S. Burroughs and Truman Capote; and actors including Liza Minelli and Dennis Hopper, among numero... [Read More]

• ASIN: 8391307522
• ASIN: 8391307522
• ISBN: 8391307522
• Brand: Brand: Jablonka Galerie
• Manufacturer: Jablonka Galerie

Mirror Mirror: Self-Portraits by Women Artists

The self-portrait is an artist’s most intriguing vehicle for analysis and self-expression. Serving a dual role as both creator and subject, artists are offered unusual freedom; as a result, self-portraits offer special value and high interest for both artists and art lovers.Mirror Mirror explores the role of the self-portrait in the work of 40 women artists from the mid-17th century to today. Filled with gorgeous, full-color reproductions, this unique guide covers a wide range of media—from oil painting to photography, woodcut to ceramic sculpture. Readers will discover the rare work of ma... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0823030717
• ASIN: 0823030717
• ISBN: 0823030717
• Brand: Brand: Watson-Guptill
• Manufacturer: Watson-Guptill

Oil Painting 'Self Portrait By Francois-Joseph Navez,1854', 20 x 26 inch / 51 x 65 cm , on High Definition HD canvas prints is for Gifts And Bed Room, Foyer And Study Room Decoration, get

Beautiful Paint on Canvas no frame, no stretch ,Self Portrait by Francois-Joseph Navez,1854, is for Home Decoration, or Wall Art Decoration, Home Decor. There are fiber canvas, cotton canvas, or linen canvas. And it is also the best gift for your relatives, or girl friend and boy friend.

• ASIN: B016TO7NQ4
• UPC: 627857036305
• ASIN: B016TO7NQ4
• Brand: LuxorPre
• Size: 20 x 26 inch / 51 x 65 cm
• Manufacturer: LuxorPre

How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

• ASIN: B003E8AK4Q
• ASIN: B003E8AK4Q
• Manufacturer: Other Press

Joker Face: Over 450 Comedians Share Their Best One-liners

Stewart Lee has seen a ghost but doesn’t believe in the afterlife. Rob Beckett can peel a banana with his feet. Viv Groskop gave birth to a baby next to a dishwasher.What do you get when you combine unknown facts about some of Britain’s best-loved comedians with their favorite one-liners and candid, black-and-white portraits? The result is Joker Face, a hilarious record of the British comedy scene from comedian Steve Best, a 20-year veteran of the comedy circuit.In this book – a companion to the 2014 book Comedy Snapshot – Best paints an intimate and very funny portrait of some of our ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1783523387
• ASIN: 1783523387
• ISBN: 1783523387
• Manufacturer: Random House UK

William Eggleston Portraits

“So many people take those simple snapshots of life, but there’s something about Eggleston that no one can match.” —Sofia Coppola The eminent American photographer William Eggleston (b. 1939) was a pioneer in exploring the artistic potential of color photography. Eggleston made a name for himself with his eccentric, unexpected compositions of everyday life that were nonetheless rife with implied narrative, elevating the commonplace to art. This sumptuously illustrated book features Eggleston’s masterful portraits, including the artist's first color photograph—a study of a young cle... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0300222521
• ASIN: 0300222521
• ISBN: 9780300222524
• Brand: Yale University Press
• Manufacturer: Yale University Press

Oil Painting 'Goya Y Lucientes Francisco De Self Portrait 1815', 30 x 41 inch / 76 x 104 cm , on High Definition HD canvas prints is for Gifts And Gym, Kids Room And Study Room Decoration

Beautiful Paint on Canvas no frame, no stretch ,Goya y Lucientes Francisco de Self Portrait 1815 , is for Home Decoration, or Wall Art Decoration, Home Decor. There are fiber canvas, cotton canvas, or linen canvas. And it is also the best gift for your relatives, or girl friend and boy friend.

• ASIN: B0161KFCZK
• UPC: 627857184013
• ASIN: B0161KFCZK
• Brand: LuxorPre
• Size: 30 x 41 inch / 76 x 104 cm
• Manufacturer: LuxorPre

Essays in Self-Portraiture: A Comparison of Technique in the Self-Portraits of Montaigne and Rembrandt (Renaissance and Baroque)

Essays in Self-Portraiture is the first book-length study devoted entirely to comparing the written self-portrait of Montaigne with the painted self-portraits of another artist, Rembrandt. The author begins by examining the nature of self-portraiture, which he defines in relationship to biography, autobiography and portraiture. Thereafter he examines the origin and nature of self-portraiture as a toponymical phenomenon. By pairing specific self-portraits, the author compares Rembrandt and Montaigne in terms of courtiership and in terms of religious wisdom and ignorance. The book closes by show... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0820427896
• UPC: 000820427896
• ASIN: 0820427896
• ISBN: 0820427896
• Manufacturer: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers

'Self-Portrait, 1858 By Edgar Degas' Oil Painting, 24x32 Inch / 61x82 Cm ,printed On Perfect Effect Canvas ,this Vivid Art Decorative Canvas Prints Is Perfectly Suitalbe For Gift For Bf And Gf And Home Gallery Art And Gifts

Reproductions Decorative Painting Not Stretched and Not Framed ,Self-Portrait, 1858 By Edgar Degas, is the best gift for your relatives, or girl friend and boy friend. That is also for Bar, Basement, Bathroom, Bedroom, Dining Room, Foyer, Game Room, Garage, Gym, Hallway, Home Office, Home Theater, Kids Room, Kitchen, Laundry Room, Living Room, Nursery, Powder Room, Study decor and Art Decoration

• ASIN: B00YX48BR8
• UPC: 618182487481
• ASIN: B00YX48BR8
• Brand: CaylayBrady
• Manufacturer: CaylayBrady

Deaf Women's Lives: Three Self-Portraits (Deaf Lives Series, Vol. 3)

Three deaf women with widely varying stories share their experiences in this unique collection, revealing the vast differences in the circumstances of their lives, but also striking similarities. In Bainy Cyrus’s All Eyes, she vividly describes her life as a young child who was taught using the oral method at the Clarke School for the Deaf in Northampton, MA. Her account of the methods used (for example, repeating the same word over and over again, as many as 35 times), animates the extraordinary amount of work performed by deaf children to learn to read and speak. Cyrus also relates the im... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1563683210
• ASIN: 1563683210
• ISBN: 1563683210
• Manufacturer: Gallaudet University Press

Sarajevo Self-Portrait: The View from the Inside

Sarajevo Self-Portrait presents the work and words of nine photographers from a country in the aftermath of war. Created with what little film they had, in ruined darkrooms without electricity or running water, the photographs in this book are not only hard proof of the destruction and the suffering of this once-beautiful country but a salute to its indomitable spirit. For a country so brutally torn apart by racial conflict and hate, and for the rest of the world which largely ignored Bosnia's cries for help, Sarajevo Self-Portrait offers an authentic view of Bosnia in a completely new way - t... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1884167039
• ASIN: 1884167039
• ISBN: 1884167039
• Brand: Brand: Umbrage Editions
• Manufacturer: powerHouse Books

Relished Vices: A Self-Portrait In Essays - eBook

"RELISHED VICES" is an unorthodox self-portrait, a collection of essays describing a few transformative years in the life of a queer American artist. Struggling to come to terms with his alcoholism, loneliness, and depression, he

• UPC: 951187026

Self Portrait as Your Traitor

Debbie Millman's illustrated essays and visual poems are part philosophy, part art, part deeply personal memoir exposing the universal triumphs and tribulations of being human. Her hand-lettered typography - sometimes tender, sometimes gritty, always breathtaking

• UPC: 25787525

The Girl's Best Friend : A Collection of Essays on Love, Life, & Sharing Your Light

The Girl's Best Friend is a collection of essays from the popular Essence.com column of the same name, which serves as the inspiration for the award-winning and best-selling novel, Ladies Who Lunch & Love. Nathan

• UPC: 305778546

Self Portrait as Your Traitor - eBook

Debbie Millman's illustrated essays and visual poems are part philosophy, part art, part deeply personal memoir exposing the universal triumphs and tribulations of being human. Her hand-lettered typography - sometimes tender, sometimes gritty, always breathtaking

• UPC: 803506303

Fabled Truths : Self Portraits and Poetic Essays

Fabled Truths: Self Portraits and Poetic

• UPC: 769104356

Portraits of Celebrated Painters : With Medallions from Their Best Performances (1825)

Portraits of Celebrated Painters: With Medallions from Their Best Performances

• UPC: 580032670

Portraits of Celebrated Painters : With Medallions from Their Best Performances (1825)

Portraits of Celebrated Painters: With Medallions from Their Best Performances

• UPC: 963328596