Description
This course will examine a selected historical body of some of the first self-portraits from the Italian and Northern Renaissance, to the development of the painted and photographed death portraits of the nineteenth century, to the assembly-line produced Pop Art celebrity portraits of artists like Andy Warhol, to the explosion of self-portraits with the camera and cell phone in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Some themes to be investigated are: self-reference in art; social media and art; the artist and the camera; the emergence of the individual in art; narcissism and art. Offered upon rotation. No prerequisites.