1st Edition

Artists and Their Autobiographies from Today to the Renaissance and Back Symptoms of Sincerity

By Charles Reeve Copyright 2023
188 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

188 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

188 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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. However, this book... Read more

Introduction: How to Use This Book

Chapter 1: Putting the "Lie" in "Line": Eric Hebborn's Drawn to Trouble

Chapter 2: Who Killed Greta Bismarck: Autobiography, Autofiction and the Authentically Insincere

Chapter 3: Andy Warhol’s Deaths and the Assembly-Line Autobiography

Chapter 4: Bitter Whimsy: Saul Steinberg's Reflections and Shadows

Chapter 5: Explicit Metaphor: Judy Chicago’s Self-Refashioning

Chapter 6: From Art to Life: Faith Ringgold’s Flights of Imagination

Chapter 7: Crossing Borders: Leonora Carrington, Autopathography and the Porous Self

Chapter 8: Why Have There Been No Great Women Artist-Autobiographers: Marie Bashkirtseff and the Irony of the Self

Chapter 9: Lifewriting, Imperialism, Collage: Mary Delany’s Autobiography and Correspondence

Chapter 10: False Starts: Cellini, Hogarth, Diderot…and Back Again

Biography

Charles Reeve is Associate Professor of Art History at OCAD University, where he is Chair of Liberal Studies. He is past President of the Universities Art Association of Canada and Co-editor, with Rachel Epp Buller, of Inappropriate Bodies: Art, Design, and Maternity (2019).