Word: self-portraits
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...that flowed between Lytton, his family and his Bloomsbury intimates. In his letters, he disgorged himself of the full, untidy range of his lusts, ambitions, despair, sickness, vanity and, best of all, his maliciously acute observations of the people and places he knew. The letters alone make an overwhelming self-portrait, and to them Holroyd adds a detailed scholarship that makes lugubrious comedy out of the slightest trivia, including the fact that Lytton was "suffering acutely from piles and carrying with him everywhere an air cushion which he had hired for one-and-six a week...
...characters, with the exception of Gilbert's rather savage self-portrait, King Gama, are splendidly familiar. The marshal chorus, sometimes seen as a patrol of bobbies, sometimes as a well-buckled line of officers consists of the three sons of King Gama, Neil Fairbairn, William Baker and Ted Rau: wonderful as a trio of bass clarinets. The expected Friends of the Suitor are played with tolerable alacrity by John B. McKean and David Evitts. As for the suitor himself, Hilarion, his name is, nothing more need be said than that Danius Turek is filling an accustomed role with acustomed accomplishment...
This is a very effective, but deceptive, self-portrait. Brower is really balancing arguments on three levels--as visionary, public relations man, and social scientist. The juggling usually works...
Kuhn points to a Self-Portrait by Max Beckman, the Reclining Nymph by George Donner, and a Tyrolese Standing Madonna of the early fifteenth-century as the outstanding treasures of the collection...
...distant "Young Man with a Hat," Seurat's study for a "Woman Powdering Herself," the famous Matisse "The Young Sailor" (version two) and the even better-known van Gogh "Self-Portrait," showing his bandaged ear. In addition, there are three sensitive Vuillards, one a "Portrait of the Artist's Mother" in a style set between the thick modelling of Manet and the pointillist inheritance of Impressionism, the other a radical self-portrait which gains depth by the luxtaposition of flat planes of color...