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James Hall on The Self-Portrait by Hall, James foodAuthor: Hall, James Portraits in art Published on 2 May 2024 by Thames & Hudson Ltd in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Pocket Perspectives' series. Hardback 88 pages, 27 Illustrations, colour 180 x 116 180g Excerpts from art critic, historian, lecturer and broadcaster James Halls lively and comprehensive cultural history of self portraiture, including such artists as Drer, Gentileschi, Van Gogh and Kahlo. Surprising, questioning, challenging,

An epic tale of the devastating tragedies of war and the forbidden romance that blooms in its grip

taking turns looking out for the police

about passion and risk and all the places in between

As a translator he has rendered into Spanish work by Hardy

or perhaps even Hobbes

And no one hones a finer fury in response to such modern annoyances as restaurant meals presented in ludicrous towers of food and cashiers with six-inch fingernails

and discover the secret of her birth

hilarious and sometimes terrifying

polygamy is encouraged and

first for Vogue

Isabel Waidner's fiction gleefully takes a hammer to false binaries

each one filled with invention