Self Portraits: Fictions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Self Portraits: Fictions write by Frederic Tuten. This book was released on 2010-09-13. Self Portraits: Fictions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Inspired by the stories the author read to his possibly illiterate Sicilian grandmother as a child, these nested narratives are told by couples traveling through hallucinatory, romantic landscapes. As the traveler in "Self Portrait with Sicily" rides a train through the Bronx, boundaries between worlds, geography, and generations blur, transporting him through Sicily and the rural landscape of his Nonna. On a honeymoon in Spain, the narrator of "Self Portrait with Bullfight" decides that "forbearance" is the key to a lasting marriage and proceeds to try the patience of his new bride with a long-winded tale of the "frisson of rivalry" between two youths vying for the attentions of a Gypsy woman. In "Self Portrait with Cheese," an allegory about a family of bears that flees the circus only to languish, bored, in their freedom, offers a convoluted fable about the needs of artists. Tuten's (The Green Hour) polished stories of beauty, longing, and loss are relatable, yet strange enough that they constantly pique--Publisher's Weekly.
SELF PORTRAITS.
SELF PORTRAITS. - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook SELF PORTRAITS. write by . This book was released on 1997. SELF PORTRAITS. available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Fictions of the Pose
Fictions of the Pose - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fictions of the Pose write by Harry Berger. This book was released on 2000. Fictions of the Pose available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This lavishly illustrated reading of the structure and meaning of portraiture asks what happens when portraits are interpreted as imitations or likenesses not only of individuals but also of their acts of posing. Includes 84 illustrations, 40 in color.
Self Portraits
Self Portraits - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Self Portraits write by 太宰治. This book was released on 1992. Self Portraits available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A rich boy turned drop-out, a radical turned drug addict, obsessed with self destruction and suicide, Osamu Dazai retains his cult status among Japan's intellectual youth more than forty years after his death. These stories, based on his own experiences and arranged chronologically, provide insight into the sources of Dazai's enduring appeal as well as his art."--
A Face to the World
A Face to the World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Face to the World write by Laura Cumming. This book was released on 2010. A Face to the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Self-portraits catch your eye. They seem to do it deliberately. Walk into any art gallery and they draw attention to themselves. Come across them in the world's museums and you get a strange shock of recognition, rather like glimpsing your own reflection. For in picturing themselves artists reveal something far deeper than their own physical looks: the truth about how they hope to be viewed by the world, and how they wish to see themselves. In this beautifully written and lavishly illustrated book, Laura Cumming, art critic of the Observer, investigates the drama of the self-portrait, from Durer, Rembrandt and Velazquez to Munch, Picasso, Warhol and the present day. She considers how and why self-portraits look as they do and what they reveal about the artist's innermost sense of self - as well as the curious ways in which they may imitate our behaviour in real life. Drawing on art, literature, history, philosophy and biography to examine the creative process in an entirely fresh way, Cumming offers a riveting insight into the intimate truths and elaborate fictions of self-portraiture and the lives of those who practise it. A work of remarkable depth, scope and power, this is a book for anyone who has ever wondered about the strange dichotomy between the innermost self and the self we choose to present for posterity - our face to the world.
