Artists and Their Autobiographies from Today to the Renaissance and Back: Symptoms of Sincerity Reeve Charles
Artists and Their Autobiographies from Today to the Renaissance and Back: Symptoms of Sincerity Reeve Charles Reading life writing that runs from Tracey Emin, Faith Ringgold and Judy Chicago to Marie…
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Artists and Their Autobiographies from Today to the Renaissance and Back: Symptoms of Sincerity Reeve Charles
Reading life writing that runs from Tracey Emin, Faith Ringgold and Judy Chicago to Marie Bashkirtseff, Benvenuto Cellini and beyond, Artists and Their Autobiographies from Today to the Renaissance and Back investigates the intriguing doubled truths of artists' autobiographies: truth in life and truth in art; authorial truth/s and the truth of their art as they saw it. From there, this volume merges autobiography studies with a history of ideas approach to art to trace sincerity's constancy and variability across times and cultures. However, this book focuses specifically on the truth of sincerity, which here--following classic discussions by Reindert Dhondt, Philippe Lejeune and Lionel Trilling--appears as a truth to self that floats free from facts to link avowal and feeling.
Through this pre-disciplinary dialogue, this book shows that recent and historical artists'
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