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C'est moi!(Omar Calabrese Artists' Self-Portraits)(Book review)
Omar Calabrese Artists' Self-Portraits, translated by Marguerite Shore. Abbeville, 391 pages, $135
reviewed by Jeffrey Meyers
The self-portrait, an autobiography in paint, began in fifteenth-century Florence when artists first asserted their identity by placing their own image, as observer or participant, into religious and historical narratives. As the artist gained social status, his image increased in importance. Botticelli's handsome, even arrogant, appearance on the extreme right in The Adoration of the Magi (1475) anticipated by several centuries the imposing self-portraits of two formally dressed arch-rivals, the Byronically dashing Delacroix ...
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- Magazine article from: Italian Culture Rorato, Laura January 1, 2001 700+ words
...polydimensionality are also considered to be the key features linking the two periods in question by the Italian semiotician Omar Calabrese. (5) Calabrese, however, stresses the importance of another baroque element in postmodernism, that is the passion...
- En el Bosque de las Citas.(El Angel)
- Newspaper article from: Reforma (México D.F., México) February 17, 2002 700+ words
Byline: Jos Homero Cine En el comienzo de la edad neobarroca, el terico Omar Calabrese propuso la intertextualidad como uno de los lunares identificatorios de tan elusivo y tornadizo cuerpo. Hoy en da, la intertextualidad...
- Self-concept and self-esteem: a clarification of terms.
- Magazine article from: Journal of School Health King, Keith A. February 1, 1997 700+ words
...in classrooms, research pertaining to children's self-concept and self-esteem often has been conducted in these settings. Several studies found children's self-concept and self-esteem associated with academic...
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- Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences January 1, 2008 700+ words
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- Self Discrepancy Theory
- Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences January 1, 2008 700+ words
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- Self-Consciousness, Private Vs. Public
- Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences January 1, 2008 700+ words
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- Self-Control
- Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences January 1, 2008 700+ words
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