Word: self-portrait
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...reader, a shade skeptical and several shades amused, is reminded of another self-portrait Sutton says he made. It was a plaster cast of his own head, cunningly painted and landscaped with cuttings from his hair. This marvel, sculptured surreptitiously in a Pennsylvania prison, was supposed to take Sutton's place in his cell bunk on the occasion of a jailbreak. But the cell block was searched and the extraordinary head found before Sutton could test its effect. The artist does not seem to have been unduly discouraged. He had, after all, astonished his audience...
...SELF-PORTRAIT IN A CONVEX MIRROR by JOHN ASHBERY 83 pages. Viking...
...themes to have assumed the name of an animate being. Actually it looks very little like a mouse. Oldenburg calls the geometric mouse "a symbol of analysis and intellect". He identifies with it ("I'm the Mouse"); one of the funniest drawings at the ICA is a "self-portrait as a Mystical Mouse". On the front of the artist's shirt is scribbled: "objects", but to mock the possible Significance of that, along the side is written "KING KONG...
...watercolor sketch of a tiger, lying on some imaginary ridge in Algeria with the ripples of its striped back imitating the profile of mountains in the background, is to be reminded how that animal - an embodiment of natural force to the Romantics - was for Delacroix akin to a self-portrait...
...some ways, the committee report is a kind of self-portrait of baffled and frustrated investigators. As it says: "The picture that emerges from the evidence is not a clear one." Assassination plots could be disguised to ensure "plausible deniability" for those higher up. Said the committee: "The custom permitted the most sensitive matters to be presented to the highest levels of the Government with the least clarity." There was also the danger of "floating authorization." Thus Richard Helms, CIA director from 1966 to 1973, testified that as deputy director he had not informed incoming Director John McCone...