Face to Face

"In Face to Face : British Self-Portratis in the Twentieth Century Philip Vann confronts one of the most demanding and revealing of all artistic genres in the process of discussing and illustrating work by more than 200 British artists. The illustrations include superb examples of self-portraits by Francis Bacon, Gwen John, John Minton, Walter Sickert, Stanley Spencer, Christopher Wood and other major twentieth-century figures." "The core of the book is a detailed examination of 100 British self-portraits in the Ruth Borchard Collection. The earliest include work by Raymond Coxon, Ithell Colquhoun, Carel Weight and Anne Redpath from the first half of the century, but most are from the 1950s and 1960s, helping evoke an entire period in British art and its myriad developing strands." "Each portrait is accompanied by a text discussing the work in some detail, the artist's background and development and any relevant writings on the subject. In all, self-portraits by 220 artists are illustrated, mainly in colour, with around two dozen black-and-white illustrations."--Jacket.