Word: self-portrait
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...analysis in Los Angeles, he is apparently trying to relive all the hurts of the past in order to clear them from his mind. The Rollins Stone interview may thus be regarded as a kind of public therapy. But especially in Part 2?out this week?a rather whiny self-portrait emerges. In a primal scream, Lennon complains that nobody recognized his greatness during pre-Beatle school days in Liverpool. "I used to say to me auntie, 'You throw my f?in' poetry out and you'll regret it when I'm famous.' " Auntie threw it out anyway. Summing...
...borne. With wit and unsentimental precision she recollected the exact details of a world that had vanished as if it never existed. What delights today's reader, though, is less the firsthand history (from the 1770s until Napoleon's return from Elba in 1815) than the self-portrait that slowly emerges. The Memoirs finally trace a cameo profile of aristocracy viewed from its better side and well deserving of the definition "grace under pressure...
Madame de La Tour du Pin died at 83 in Pisa with her autobiography almost 40 years in arrears. Still, the self-portrait is complete. It reveals a woman who took the worst blows a disorienting world had to offer (even by today's high standards of disorder) and remained amused, serene and whole...
...album cover (a self-portrait in oils, blue-nosed and rather grotesque) makes clear, this is an album primarily about where Bob Dylan has been. Like a Rolling Stone and, at long last, The Mighty Quinn, both recorded live at the Isle of Wight concert last year with The Band, are swinging mementos of the great years before Dylan's retirement in 1966. Even new songs like It Hurts Me Too and Living the Blues recall the sturdy timbers of John Wesley Harding and the country leisure of Nashville Skyline...
...Dine saw an advertisement for a bathrobe in the New York Times. "There was nobody in the bathrobe," he explains, "but when I saw it, it looked like me." He made a series of self-portraits based on that image, including the Double Isometric Self-Portrait (Serape). Before the painted canvas, he hung wire plumb lines, which cast shadows on the bathrobes and thus give them a curious kind of life. This tense and intentional counterpoint between hard and soft materials, object and paint, reality and illusion can be traced through virtually all of his works...