Self-Portraits

$20.00 at High Museum of Art.

The self as a subject is one of the most fascinating and fruitful of artistic enterprises. From the 15th century to today, this collection brings together some of the best examples of self-portraiture to explore the genre’s evolution over the centuries as well as the enduring questions of selfhood and self-representation that have besieged human experience for centuries before social media and the selfie.Is a self-portrait of an artist a medium of reflection? Or is it merely a black void, the “false mirror,”…