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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Rembrandt Rembrandt Pascal Bonafoux The face of the artist through over 100 of his self-portraits, from his first one at the age of nineteen, to the last, painted a few months before his death. OL133704W
Arnulf Rainer Arnulf Rainer Arnulf Rainer,Gabriele Wimmer,John Sailer Seine in den 1950er Jahren entwickelten Überarbeitungen machten den 1929 in Baden bei Wien geborenen Künstler Arnulf Rainer weltweit bekannt. In Kooperation mit der Albertina in Wien würdigt das Muse… OL1738893W
Just like me Just like me Harriet Rohmer Fourteen artists and picture book illustrators present self-portraits and brief descriptions that explore their varied ethnic origins, their work, and their feelings about themselves. Fourteen artis… OL19696632W
The self-portrait The self-portrait James Hall In this broad cultural survey, art historian and critic James Hall brilliantly maps the history of self-portraiture, from the earliest myths of Narcissus to the prolific self-image-making of contempo… OL19982533W
Autoportrait Autoportrait Robert Mapplethorpe "Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) was an artist who infused art with personal reference, subjective expression, and allusion to real time and emotion. Among the foremost subjects and objects that Mapp… OL2051079W
Selfies Selfies Haje Jan Kamps A celebration of the culture of social networking, the world where you aren't anybody until you have a photo of yourself. What that photo says is critically important, whether you're an artistic soul… OL26198000W
Frida Kahlo Frida Kahlo Emma Dexter,Tanya Barson,Frida Kahlo "Major catalogue shows the vast collection gathered for the exhibition of the Palace of Fine Arts to commemorate the centenary of the birth of painter Frida Kahlo (b. Mexico), comprising her oils, wa… OL2815703W
The art of the selfie The art of the selfie Jhoane Baterna-Pateña "For ten months, the Philippine photographer Jhoane Baterna-Patena observed people pursuing one of their favorite activities; the photographic staging of themselves. For this, she visited Golden Bauh… OL31194620W
Ai Weiwei Ai Weiwei Ai Weiwei "These photos were taken between 1983 and 1994 during the decade I spent living in New York before returning to Beijing. At that time, I didn't really have anything to do. I was just hanging out, whi… OL31866853W
Marvel Marvel Marvel Harris "MARVEL describes the journey of Marvel Harris' personal battles with mental illness, self-love, acceptance, and gender identity, all told through a searing collection of self-portraits spanning the … OL32026194W
Hand and head Hand and head Peter Springer "Expressionist painter Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's Self-Portrait as Soldier (1915) is one of the best-known self-portraits of the modern classical period. With its sharp foreground focus on the uniformed… OL3586713W
Self-portraits Self-portraits Peggy Roalf An exploration of painting through 2000 years of art history, focusing on self-portraits by such artists as Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt, Gorky, and Picasso. OL3913250W
Max Beckmann Max Beckmann Cornelia Homburg,Judith C. Weiss,Max Beckmann,Reinhard Spieler,Carla Schulz-Hoffmann "This panoramic presentation of Max Beckmann's painted oeuvre sheds new light on central themes such as the world of cabaret, music, and the theater, dreams and reality, staged sensuality, and the ro… OL612113W
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Roland Scotti,Kurt Wyss,Norman Rosenthal,Magdalena Moeller,Eberhard Kornfeld,Magdalena M. Moeller,Jobst Broelmann,Andrew Robison,Ernst Ludwig Kirchner,Wolfgang Henze,Klaus Freymann,Jill Lloyd 237 p. : 29 cm OL813647W
Cézanne Cézanne Steven Platzman "Cezanne has long been celebrated as the founding father of modern art. But astonishly there has never been a study devoted to his self-portraits. Now, for the first time, Steven Platzman reveals the… OL8303848W
Mirror, mirror Mirror, mirror Liz Rideal "Mirror Mirror explores the history and function of the self-portrait in the work of forty women artists, from the seventeenth century to the present day. It covers works in all media, from oil paint… OL8557810W