id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_c6zvkubskfefhg5allbia5rzma Angeria Rigamonti di Cutò Staging the Modernist Self: The Self-Portraits of William Orpen 2012 14 .pdf application/pdf 9929 601 60 I consider Orpen's self-portraits as the visual equivalent of autobiography and autobiografiction, Self-portraits, autobiography, identity, modernism, First World War, Ford Madox Ford, Ireland Rembrandt's self-portraits, citing both artists' love of dress-up but, mistakenly I would argue, views Orpen's images Far from being unaffected by modern developments, in some of the self-portraits Orpen revealed a To view Orpen's self-portraiture as the visual equivalent of autobiography seems especially apt in the early this sense Orpen's visual autobiography should be seen as comprising the entirety of his self-portraiture, each image one senses that Orpen's self-portraits constitute an attempt to mediate his own identities while The 1912 Self portrait (Figure 3) shows Orpen looking at himself in a mirror whose frame is visible within within the image, suggesting that Orpen was in the process of drawing the self-portrait we are viewing. W. Orpen, Self-Portrait Looking in a Mirror, Ireland, c. ./cache/work_c6zvkubskfefhg5allbia5rzma.pdf ./txt/work_c6zvkubskfefhg5allbia5rzma.txt