Eye to I: Self Portraits from the National Portrait Gallery

This richly illustrated book features an introduction by the National Portrait Gallerys chief curator and nearly one hundred fifty insightful entries on key self-portraits in the museums collection. It enables the reader to come face to face with some of Americas most influential artists of the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries, like Edward Hopper, Beatrice Wood, Man Ray, Alexander Calder, Edward Steichen, Diego Rivera, George Gershwin, Elaine de Kooning, Louise Bourgeois, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Joan Jonas, Patti Smith, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Alice Neel, David Hockney, Chuck Close, and many more. Eye to I provides readers with an overview of self-portraiture while revealing the intersections that exist between art, life, and self-representation.