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...which two paintings were given in payment. For all that, it seems Vermeer enjoyed some celebrity while he lived: a French nobleman recorded in his diary in 1663 that he had made a special trip from The Hague to Delft just to visit Vermeer's studio. No self-portrait of Vermeer as such exists, although scholars believe that the figure at the easel in Allegory of Painting very likely represents the Delft master himself...
What readers will find most fascinating in the book is Author Blackstock's self-portrait of Charity as philanthropist: stubborn, ironic, protective as a brooding swan, and absolutely unreconciled to old injustices. "I know in my mind," she writes, "that it is absurd, obscene and evil to hate a people, it is a form of genocide, it has no basis in reality. And yet when I think of the Germans, a vision comes before my eyes of still, unsmiling faces, branded wrists, a hysterical girl, screaming for her dead mother. And then, in defiance of my upbringing, my training...
...instances where Poussin painted a living person, for portraiture was then considered a lowly form, was his self-portrait of 1650. With an intimation of the coming romantic age, he cloaks himself in an academic gown, accouters himself with a book, and poses against pictures whose gilt edges focus attention especially on his eyes. It is clearly the portrait of the artist as rational philosopher, saying with Cartesian clarity: I perceive, therefore I paint...
MISSISSIPPI: A SELF-PORTRAIT (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). A news special investigating the opinions and attitudes of white Mississippians including Ku Klux Klan members, sharecroppers, housewives, millionaires, businessmen and political and religious leaders...
...part of an excellent series, U.S.A.: The Novel, National Educational Television (NET) stations in Boston, New York, Washington, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Milwaukee, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle this week are showing "The Nonfiction Novel," a self-portrait of Truman Capote, who talks about his bestselling book, /// Cold Blood. Dates and time vary locally. NET's 94 other stations will broadcast the show over the next few months...