Artists and Their Autobiographies from Today to the Renaissance and Back

Reading lifewriting that runs from Tracey Emin, Faith Ringgold and Judy Chicago to Marie Bashkirtseff, Benvenuto Cellini and beyond, Artists and Their Autobiographies from Today to the Renaissance and Back investigates the intriguing doubled truths of artists' autobiographies: truth in life and truth in art.

Charles Reeve is Associate Professor of Art History at OCAD University, where he is Chair of Liberal Studies. He is past President of the Universities Art Association of Canada and Co-editor, with Rachel Epp Buller, of Inappropriate Bodies: Art, Design, and Maternity (2019).

Introduction: How to Use This Book Chapter 1: Putting the "Lie" in "Line": Eric Hebborn's Drawn to Trouble Chapter 2: Who Killed Greta Bismarck: Autobiography, Autofiction and the Authentically Insincere Chapter 3: Andy Warhol's Deaths and the Assembly-Line Autobiography Chapter 4: Bitter Whimsy: Saul Steinberg's Reflections and Shadows Chapter 5: Explicit Metaphor: Judy Chicago's Self-Refashioning Chapter 6: From Art to Life: Faith Ringgold's Flights of Imagination Chapter 7: Crossing Borders: Leonora Carrington, Autopathography and the Porous Self Chapter 8: Why Have There Been No Great Women Artist-Autobiographers: Marie Bashkirtseff and the Irony of the Self Chapter 9: Lifewriting, Imperialism, Collage: Mary Delany's Autobiography and Correspondence Chapter 10: False Starts: Cellini, Hogarth, Diderot...and Back Again