Self-Portrait
ISBN-13:
9781787331846
ISBN-10:
1787331849
Author:
Celia Paul
Publication date:
2019
Publisher:
Jonathan Cape
Format:
Hardcover
224 pages
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Book details
ISBN-13:
9781787331846
ISBN-10:
1787331849
Author:
Celia Paul
Publication date:
2019
Publisher:
Jonathan Cape
Format:
Hardcover
224 pages
Summary
Self-Portrait (ISBN-13: 9781787331846 and ISBN-10: 1787331849), written by authors
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Description
I’m not a portrait painter. If I’m anything, I have always been an autobiographer.
Self-Portrait reveals a life truly lived through art. In this short, intimate memoir, Celia Paul moves effortlessly through time in words and images, folding in her past and present selves. From her move to the Slade School of Fine Art at sixteen, through a profound and intense affair with the older and better-known artist Lucian Freud, to the practices of her present-day studio, she meticulously assembles the surprising, beautiful, haunting scenes of a life. Paul brings to her prose the same qualities that she brings to her art: a brutal honesty, a delicate but powerful intensity, and an acute eye for visual detail.
At its heart, this is a book about a young woman becoming an artist, with all the sacrifices and complications that entails. As she moves out of Freud’s shadow, and navigates the path from muse to painter in her own right, Paul’s power and identity as an artist emerge from the page.
Self-Portrait is a uniquely arresting, poignant book, and a work of art and literature by a singular talent.
Self-Portrait reveals a life truly lived through art. In this short, intimate memoir, Celia Paul moves effortlessly through time in words and images, folding in her past and present selves. From her move to the Slade School of Fine Art at sixteen, through a profound and intense affair with the older and better-known artist Lucian Freud, to the practices of her present-day studio, she meticulously assembles the surprising, beautiful, haunting scenes of a life. Paul brings to her prose the same qualities that she brings to her art: a brutal honesty, a delicate but powerful intensity, and an acute eye for visual detail.
At its heart, this is a book about a young woman becoming an artist, with all the sacrifices and complications that entails. As she moves out of Freud’s shadow, and navigates the path from muse to painter in her own right, Paul’s power and identity as an artist emerge from the page.
Self-Portrait is a uniquely arresting, poignant book, and a work of art and literature by a singular talent.
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