Autoritratti

Taschen Basic Genre

by Ernst Rebel, Norbert Wolf (editor), Tania Calcinaro (translator)

L'autoritratto è un mezzo con cui l'artista si riflette o è invece un falso specchio come si evince dal titolo che Magritte attribuì al suo quadro del 1928 raffigurante un solo occhio? L'autoritratto rivela come l'artista vede se stesso o come vorrebbe che gli altri lo vedessero? Dal quindicesimo secolo a oggi questa monografia colleziona il meglio degli autoritratti della storia dell'arte esplorando queste problematiche e molte altre.

Genres: Art, Nonfiction

96 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

Professor of Art History at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

Reviews

[Zacary Ryan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some of the editorial/analysis/essay content wanders off-topic, but there's some great color prints and descriptions.

[Alejandro Teruel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excelente idea, con una selección interesante, aunque euro-centrica de artistas. Los único artistas no-europeos representados son Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons, Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo y sólo aparecen dos mujeres Frida Kahlo y Rosalba Carriero.

El autor deliberadamente ha escogido una fascinante variedad de contextos en que aparecen autorretratos del artista. Por ejemplo, Miguel Angel, anticipándose a Francis Bacon, se autorretrata en una escena del Juicio Final, en la piel despellejada de San Bartolomé, el Maestro Gerlachus en un detalle de un vitral, Caravaggio es la cabeza decapitada de Goliat, James Ensor se pinta entre máscaras, Munch entre candilejas, Parmigianino en un espejo concavo...

En resumen, muy recomendable.

[JooYoung · Rating 1 out of 5]

Great selection of images, but this is some of the most convoluted, biased writing I have read in a long time. I also find it hilarious that this book is called self portraits yet there isn't any images from Asian self portraiture which has a longer and rich history than anything in this book, and also Egyptian naturalistic self portraits were created way before this. This book promotes a rather euro centric view of self-portraits and should have been titled in such a way to denote that no Black people, Asians or almost any other people of color other than maybe a handful are allowed to be included in this book. Also once he gets past the art he knows well he just starts saying weird stuff that sounds like word salad. It also makes claims that sounds like object universal truths, but they aren't-- a lot of it is just his opinion. If you are a fan of the elements of style writing method, the writing in this book will make you want to pull your hair out. The images are great, but the writing is bizarre. "20th century art lives not least from the distortions of its reflections, which are soon to be the origin of myths and insights." This is terribly pretentious writing.

[Paul Rubin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Excellent selection of pictures and artists makes the book successful. Publisher TASCHEN provides a very accessible pathway to this topic as they have done with numerous other artists and related subject matter. However, as others commenters have already mentioned, much of the text is obtuse rambling (my interpretation of what others have said). The author could have said half as much about each artist and been successful.

[S. · Rating 3 out of 5]

İçeriğini (açıklamaları) sevmedim. Olmasını umduğum sayıda çalışma da yok.

[Marzia_Nicole · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent! So many fantastic descriptions!

[Komal Patel-Gibson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Analysis quite dry, and but pictures are all in colour and of good quality

[Bouchra · Rating 4 out of 5]

I need to buy more art books

[Lukas Bravo Nicolas · Rating 4 out of 5]

Es un libro que cumple lo que promete y sirve de inicio para este tema

[Luciana Nery · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent choices. My favorites, among the self-portraits that were new to me, were Munch, Bailly, Dalí, Oehlen. And then old favorites, like Michelangelo as St. Bartholomew, Van Gogh and the missing ear, and decapitated Caravaggio.

Text good as always - this collection has very consistent quality throughout. Any book of this series is an honest primer on an artist. Then, if you like the artist, buy a more complete book.

[Filipe Russo · Rating 3 out of 5]

The pictures could have been bigger and the way you need to go backtracking or jumping forward to see the images the text talks about is just bad design. The self-portraits and their contextualization are nice though.