The Spectator’s Bevis Hiller has reviewed Philip Vann’s book on the Collection, Face to Face: British Portraits in the Twentieth Century.
In Hiller’s own words: 'Self-portraits give much the same chances as memoirs: they can be vain or modest, revealing or concealing, superficial or deeply introspective. So, when a mass of self-portraits is set before you, as in this finely produced book, you soon begin to work out who is posturing and who is for real — and to decide whether Keats was right in equating truth and beauty.'
Read the interview in full here.
July 10, 2004