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Narcissus in Bloom: An Alternative History of the Selfie

English

By (author): Matt Colquhoun

Narcissism is the defining pathology of the twenty-first century, but what if it is not self-obsession that defines us but a need for self-transformation? Narcissus in Bloom is a short history of the self-portrait, beginning with Renaissance painters like Albrecht Durer, Rembrandt and Caravaggio, through to photographers and celebrities like Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian, Lee Friedlander and Herve Guibert. Analysing the ways that so many artists have regarded their own image, how might the age of the selfie be considered as a time of transformation rather than stasis? By returning to the original tale of Narcissus, and the flower from which he takes his name, this book offers an alternative reading of narcissism from within the midst of a moralising subgenre of books that argue our self-obsession will be the death of us. That may be so. But what will we become after we have taken the watery track, and rid ourselves of the cloistered self-image given to us by late capitalism? See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 369g
  • Dimensions: 130 x 197mm
  • Publication Date: 08 Aug 2023
  • Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781914420634

About Matt Colquhoun

Matt Colquhoun is a writer and photographer from Hull UK. He is the author of Egress: On Mourning Melancholy and Mark Fisher (2020) and the editor of Mark Fisher's Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures (2021). He is currently based in Newcastle upon Tyne and blogs at xenogothic.com.

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