500 Self-Portraits
"The mirror, above all - the mirror is our teacher," wrote Leonardo da Vinci. Portraits are an endless source of fascination, responding as they do to the basic human impulse to look at faces and try to see into the character behind them. Self-portraits have the added fascination that comes from looking into the mirror and trying to study one\'s own face. This book presents an uninterrupted sequence of 500 self-portraits, in chronological order from ancient Egypt to the late twentieth century. The challenge of creating their own likeness has proved irresistible to artists, and included here are powerful and evocative works by many of the world\'s greatest painters and sculptors, including Dьrer, Rembrandt, Picasso and Andy Warhol....
Издательство:
Phaidon
Дата выхода: апрель 2002