Introduction Prior to photography, just painters, printmakers, and sculptors could tell, through self-representation, how they saw themselves and how they were seen by others. Before, just craftsmen had the...
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Introduction Prior to photography, just painters, printmakers, and sculptors could tell, through self-representation, how they saw themselves and how they were seen by others. Before, just craftsmen had the advantage to catch and envision themselves. Previously, painters used to examine the mirror searching for covered certainties. It is undeniable that the history of art reveals how self-representation has been an essential tool for artists, regardless of the historical time they belong to, in their search to reflect on themselves and their relations with the world. Self representation has not only been a tool to control it’s the image you give to the public, but it has been widely used for soul searching, to learn how to represent oneself with things external to the artist. Nowadays self-representation is more manageable. Social media and the internet have made i
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