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How Duchamp, Kusama, & Basquait Take Selfies - 27 Contemporary Self-Portraits - Art For Sale - Artspace
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Phaidon first tackled the history of self-portraiture in 1936 (did you know the publisher was that
old?!) with their book Five Hundred Self-Portraits: From Antique Times to the Present Day. Ludwig
Goldscheider, who was the then Vienna-based company’s co-founder, selected the 500 portraits
included in the volume. Because very few books at the time had assembled and displayed self-
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portraits in this manner, Phaidon’s version was ground-breaking. However, like any old-school art
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history book, the self-portraits were mostly of old white dudes. In the year 2000, Phaidon
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happened in the late twentieth century since the original version was published, over 100 additional
artworks were added—including more conceptual approaches to depicting one’s self.
And now, Phaidon is back at it again with the recently published 500 Self Portraits, where they’ve
revisited and expanded the book for a third time. The preface of the book explains, “Our
understanding of how the self is represented visually has shifted again since then, with smartphone
cameras and image-sharing social media platforms heralding the age of the ubiquitous ‘selfie.’ The
twenty-first-century has also seen art history opening up to embrace previously overlooked artists, as
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well as a new generation, who have taken the self-portrait in fresh directions.” Consequently, the
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newest version presents a much more diverse range of artworks and an additional 81 artists. Here’s a
chronological, visual list of some of our favorite contemporary selfies from
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VIVIAN MAIER
Self-Portrait, May 5, 1955, gelatin silver print. Image via The New York Times.
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MARCEL DUCHAMP
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With My Tongue in My Cheek, 1959, plaster on pencil and paper. Photo via Académie de Nantes.
NORMAN ROCKWELL
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YAYOI KUSAMA
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FRANCIS BACON
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ANA MENDIETA
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Untitled (Facial Hair Transplants), 1972, suite of seven color photographs. Image via Alison Jacques
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DAVID HOCKNEY
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The Student – Homage to Picasso, 1973, etching. Image via National Portrait Gallery.
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BARKLEY L HENDRICKS
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Brilliantly Endowed, 1977, oil and acrylic on linen canvas. Image via Huffington Post.
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ADRIAN PIPER
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JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT
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Self-Portrait as a Heel – Part Two, 1982, acrylic and oil paintstick on canvas. Image via Artchive.
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NAN GOLDIN
Nan One Month after Being Battered, 1984, cibachrome print. Image via the Tate.
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HELEN CHADWICK
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'East Meets West' Self-Portrait series 1979–1989, 1983, gelatin selenium-toned silver print. Image via
Center for Creative Photography.
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CINDY SHERMAN
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YASUMASA MORIMURA
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MARTIN KIPPENBERGER
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Martin, into the Corner, You Should Be Ashamed of Yourself, 1989–90, hard foam, cast resin, latex,
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acrylic (head and hands), metal, Styrofoam, foam rubber, clothing (shirt, trousers, pair of braces,
leather shoes), iron plate. Image via Flash Art.
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JENNY SAVILLE
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CATHERINE OPIE
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SHIRIN NESHAT
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MAURIZIO CATTELAN
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Spermini (Little Sperms), 1997, latex, paint, 500 heads. Image via Rafa Mussolini.
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PIPILOTTI RIST
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Open my Glade (Flatten), 2000, single channel video installation, silent, color. Image via Artsy.
SHENG QI
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GLENN LIGON
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Self-Portrait at Eleven Years Old, 2004, stenciled linen pulp on cotton-based sheet. Image via
MoMA.
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ZHANG HUAN
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Family Tree, 2001, nine chromogenic prints in polyptych. Image via Public Delivery.
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ADEL ABDESSEMED
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ZANELE MUHOLI
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Ntozakhe II, Parktown, 2016, gelatin silver print. Image via Art Basel.
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