{"product_id":"celia-paul-self-portrait-2019-hardback","title":"Celia Paul: Self-Portrait [2019] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eI'm not a portrait painter. If I'm anything, I have always been an autobiographer.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSelf-Portrait\u003c\/i\u003e reveals a life truly lived through art. In this short, intimate memoir, Celia Paul moves effortlessly through time in words and images, folding in her past and present selves. From her move to the Slade School of Fine Art at sixteen, through a profound and intense affair with the older and better-known artist Lucian Freud, to the practices of her present-day studio, she meticulously assembles the surprising, beautiful, haunting scenes of a life. Paul brings to her prose the same qualities that she brings to her art: a brutal honesty, a delicate but powerful intensity, and an acute eye for visual detail.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt its heart, this is a book about a young woman becoming an artist, with all the sacrifices and complications that entails. As she moves out of Freud's shadow, and navigates a path to artistic freedom, Paul's power and identity as an artist emerge from the page.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSelf-Portrait\u003c\/i\u003e is a uniquely arresting, poignant book, and a work of art and literature by a singular talent.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                                                                                                                                                        'Fascinating... Painfully honest on what it means to be a woman who puts art first, no matter what.' Olivia Laing, \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e**Shortlisted for the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2019**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paul, Celia","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":53173134885203,"sku":"XV81787331846","price":14.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"New","offer_id":53173134917971,"sku":"9781787331846","price":35.71,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/paul-celia-celia-paul-self-portrait-2019-hardback-1226409671.jpg?v=1772925461","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/celia-paul-self-portrait-2019-hardback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}