Charles Reeve

Artists and Their Autobiographies from Today to the Renaissance and Back

Symptoms of Sincerity

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Reading lifewriting that runs from Tracey Emin, Faith Ringgold and Judy Chicago to Marie Bashkirtseff, Benvenuto Cellini and beyond, Artists and Their Autobiographies from Today to the Renaissance and Back investigates the intriguing doubled truths of artists' autobiographies: truth in life and truth in art.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 174
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm
• ISBN-13: 9781032365978
• ISBN-10: 1032365978
• Artikelnr.: 70349088

Autorenporträt

Charles Reeve is Associate Professor of Art History at OCAD University, where he is Chair of Liberal Studies. He is past President of the Universities Art Association of Canada and Co-editor, with Rachel Epp Buller, of Inappropriate Bodies: Art, Design, and Maternity (2019).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: How to Use This Book
Chapter 1: Putting the "Lie" in "Line": Eric Hebborn's Drawn to Trouble
Chapter 2: Who Killed Greta Bismarck: Autobiography, Autofiction and the
Authentically Insincere
Chapter 3: Andy Warhol's Deaths and the Assembly-Line Autobiography
Chapter 4: Bitter Whimsy: Saul Steinberg's Reflections and Shadows
Chapter 5: Explicit Metaphor: Judy Chicago's Self-Refashioning
Chapter 6: From Art to Life: Faith Ringgold's Flights of Imagination
Chapter 7: Crossing Borders: Leonora Carrington, Autopathography and the
Porous Self
Chapter 8: Why Have There Been No Great Women Artist-Autobiographers: Marie
Bashkirtseff and the Irony of the Self
Chapter 9: Lifewriting, Imperialism, Collage: Mary Delany's Autobiography
and Correspondence
Chapter 10: False Starts: Cellini, Hogarth, Diderot...and Back Again