Artists and Their Autobiographies from Today to the Renaissance and Back
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Artists and Their Autobiographies from Today to the Renaissance and Back

Symptoms of Sincerity

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Artists and Their Autobiographies from Today to the Renaissance and Back

Symptoms of Sincerity

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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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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2022
ISBN
9781000783810
Edition
1
Topic
Literatura
Subtopic
Crítica literaria

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Table of Contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Introduction: How to Use This Book
  10. 1 Putting the “Lie” in “Line”: Eric Hebborn’s Drawn to Trouble
  11. 2 Who Killed Greta Bismarck: Autobiography, Autofiction and the Authentically Insincere
  12. 3 Andy Warhol’s Deaths and the Assembly-Line Autobiography
  13. 4 Bitter Whimsy: Saul Steinberg’s Reflections and Shadows
  14. 5 Explicit Metaphor: Judy Chicago’s Self-Refashioning
  15. 6 From Art to Life: Faith Ringgold’s Flights of Imagination
  16. 7 Crossing Borders: Leonora Carrington, Autopathography and the Porous Self
  17. 8 Why Have There Been No Great Women Artist-Autobiographers: Marie Bashkirtseff and the Irony of the Self
  18. 9 Life writing, Imperialism, Collage: Mary Delany’s Autobiography and Correspondence
  19. 10 False Starts: Cellini, Hogarth, Diderot…and Back Again
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index