'Painfully honest on what it means to be a woman who puts art first, no matter what' Olivia Laing I'm not a portrait painter. If I'm anything, I have always...
Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize “Fabulously written, this spellbinding debut novel is a real page-turner.
Exploring what motivates artists to paint or photograph themselves, the author selects over 100 self-portraits from the National Portrait Gallery to examine the style, techniques and personalities of the sitters,...
'There is never a dull passage in this book: the detail is crisply imparted; the content richly arcane at times, but more usually profoundly human; the ideas come freshly coined.' - The Guardian
During a 90-minute flight, a woman looks back on an affair with a composer in a cerebral, feminist, Bernhardian debut.
'What is a Self-Portrait?' features well-known examples of fine art and discusses how artists reveal themselves through their self-portraits.
"Fraught and deeply moving...the work of a genuinely exciting new talent." —Booker Prize winner, George Saunders. “Aimee Pokwatka’s Self-Portrait with Nothing is tantalizing and elusive lacework, delicately balanced between the ...
Exhibition "The Self-Portrait: a Modern View" organised by Artsite Gallery, Bath International Festival, 1987.
Female artists from the 16th century onwards manipulating their own images.
"Natalie Dybisz is known in the photographic community as Miss Aniela, the name under which her work is published.