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"Reading life writing that runs from Tracey Emin, Faith Ringgold and Judy Chicago to Marie Bashkirtseff, Benvenuto Cellini and beyond, Artists and Their Autobiographies from Today to the Renaissance and Back investigates the intriguing doubled truths of artists’ autobiographies: truth in life and truth in art; authorial truth/s and the truth of their art as they saw it. However, this book focuses specifically on the truth of sincerity, which here—following classic discussions by Reindert Dhondt, Philippe Lejeune and Lionel Trilling—appears as a truth to self that floats free from facts to link avowal and feeling. From there, this volume merges autobiography studies with a history of ideas approach to art to trace sincerity’s constancy and variability across times and cultures. Through this pre-disciplinary dialogue, this book shows that recent and historical artists’ autobiographies differ in how, not if, they intertwine sincerity in life and art. Along the way, this volume leverages the foregrounding of sincerity caused by this doubling to explore such key issues of autobiography studies as autobiography’s relation to fiction, serial autobiography, ""as-told-to"" narrative and what happens when liars claim to tell all."

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Author:   Charles Reeve
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367221324

ISBN 10:   0367221322
Pages:   174
Publication Date:   25 November 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: How to Use This Book Chapter 1: Putting the Lie in Line : Eric Hebborn's Drawn to Trouble Chapter 2: Who Killed Greta Bismarck: Autobiography, Autofiction and the Authentically Insincere Chapter 3: Andy Warhol's Deaths and the Assembly-Line Autobiography Chapter 4: Bitter Whimsy: Saul Steinberg's Reflections and Shadows Chapter 5: Explicit Metaphor: Judy Chicago's Self-Refashioning Chapter 6: From Art to Life: Faith Ringgold's Flights of Imagination Chapter 7: Crossing Borders: Leonora Carrington, Autopathography and the Porous Self Chapter 8: Why Have There Been No Great Women Artist-Autobiographers: Marie Bashkirtseff and the Irony of the Self Chapter 9: Lifewriting, Imperialism, Collage: Mary Delany's Autobiography and Correspondence Chapter 10: False Starts: Cellini, Hogarth, Diderot...and Back Again

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Charles Reeve is Associate Professor of Art History at OCAD University, where he is Chair of Liberal Studies. He is past President of the Universities Art Association of Canada and Co-editor, with Rachel Epp Buller, of Inappropriate Bodies: Art, Design, and Maternity (2019).

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