Excerpts from art critic, historian, lecturer and broadcaster James Hall’s lively and comprehensive cultural history of self-portraiture, including such artists as Dürer, Gentileschi, Van Gogh and Kahlo.
Surprising, questioning, challenging, enriching: the Pocket Perspectives series celebrates writers and thinkers who have helped shape the conversation across the arts. Mixing classic and contemporary texts, reissues and abridgements, these are bite-sized, fully illustrated reads in an attractive, affordable and highly collectable package.
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James Hall is an art historian, lecturer and broadcaster, and is a visiting research fellow at the University of Southampton. He is the author of four critically acclaimed books, including The World as Sculpture: The Changing Status of Sculpture from the Renaissance to the Present Day and The Sinister Side: How Left-Right Symbolism Shaped Western Art.
https://shop.royalacademy.org.uk/james-hall-on-the-self-portrait63937James Hall on The Self-Portraithttps://shop.royalacademy.org.uk/media/catalog/product/1/2/12095495---1200x1200px---_c_-y.jpg12.9912.99GBPInStock/Books/All Books26212224<p><span class="a-text-bold">Excerpts from art critic, historian, lecturer and broadcaster James Hall’s lively and comprehensive cultural history of self-portraiture, including such artists as Dürer, Gentileschi, Van Gogh and Kahlo.</span></p>
<p><span class="a-text-bold">Surprising, questioning, challenging, enriching: the Pocket Perspectives series celebrates writers and thinkers who have helped shape the conversation across the arts. Mixing classic and contemporary texts, reissues and abridgements, these are bite-sized, fully illustrated reads in an attractive, affordable and highly collectable package.</span></p> <style>#html-body [data-pb-style=K1WTP5X]{justify-content:flex-start;display:flex;flex-direction:column;background-position:left top;background-size:cover;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-attachment:scroll}</style><div data-content-type="row" data-appearance="contained" data-element="main"><div data-enable-parallax="0" data-parallax-speed="0.5" data-background-images="{}" data-background-type="image" data-video-loop="true" data-video-play-only-visible="true" data-video-lazy-load="true" data-video-fallback-src="" data-element="inner" data-pb-style="K1WTP5X"><div data-content-type="text" data-appearance="default" data-element="main"><p>James Hall is an art historian, lecturer and broadcaster, and is a visiting research fellow at the University of Southampton. He is the author of four critically acclaimed books, including The World as Sculpture: The Changing Status of Sculpture from the Renaissance to the Present Day and The Sinister Side: How Left-Right Symbolism Shaped Western Art.</p></div></div></div>00https://shop.royalacademy.org.uk/media/catalog/product/1/2/12095495---1200x1200px---_c_-y-_2_.jpghttps://shop.royalacademy.org.uk/media/catalog/product/1/2/12095495---1200x1200px---_c_-y-_3_.jpghttps://shop.royalacademy.org.uk/media/catalog/product/1/2/12095495---1200x1200px---_c_-y-_4_.jpgadd-to-cartstore_type:ShopShopHardback18.54 x 1.27 x 12.19cm978050002727188No
