The Guardian’s Simon Callow provides an insightful review of Laura Cumming’s “A Face to the World” — a book providing a historical look at self portraiture in paintings.
From the review:
“With self-portraiture, it seems, drama is always in the air. In A Face to the World, Cumming dramatizes six centuries of this intensely personal artistic activity.”
“She has no over-riding thesis; instead, much more rewardingly, she gently (and more or less chronologically) explores this exceptionally rich territory to reveal more and more about the complex ways in which we see ourselves and the relationships created between painter and viewer; about the portrait, but indeed about the self – if such a thing may be said to exist, a question she examines in some depth.”
You can read the full review here.
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