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Seeing ourselves : women's self-portraits / Frances Borzello.

Seeing ourselves : women's self-portraits / Frances Borzello.
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ISBN 9780500294024
Name Borzello, Frances author.
Title Seeing ourselves : women's self-portraits / Frances Borzello.
Edition First paperback edition, Revised and expanded edition.
Published London : Thames & Hudson, 2018.
©2016.
Description 271 pages : portraits (chiefly colour), illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 23 cm.
Notes Originally published: London : Thames & Hudson, 1998. Revised and expanded edition originally published: 2016.
Note Includes bibliographical reference (pages 251) and index.
Contents Preface -- Introduction: The Presentation of Self -- 1. The Sixteenth Century: In the beginning -- 2. The Seventeenth Century: A new self-confidence -- 3. The Eighteenth Century: Professionals and amateurs -- 4. The Nineteenth Century: The opening door -- 5. The Twentieth Century: Breaking taboo -- 6. Into the future: The feminist impact -- Conclusion: Drawing breath -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Artists' biographies -- List of illustrations -- Index -- Acknowledgements.
Summary This fresh, richly illustrated book is the first in-depth presentation of how women artists have chosen to picture themselves. Beginning with the self-portraits of nuns in medieval illuminated manuscripts, Borzello reconstructs an overlooked genre and provides essential contextual information. She moves on to sixteenth-century Italy, where Sofonisba Anguissola painted one of the longest known series of self-portraits, recording her features from adolescence to old age. In 1630, Artemisia Gentileschi depicted herself as the personification of painting, and at the same time in the Netherlands Judith Leyster portrayed herself at her easel, as a relaxed, self-assured professional. In the 1700s, women from Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun to Angelica Kauffman conveyed, each in her own way, ideas of femininity and the artist's passion for her chosen field.
Donated by Meg Sheehan ;
Subjects Self-portraits
Women artists
Women artists -- Psychology
Women artists -- Portraits
Self-perception in women
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