Are We Narcissistic Enough? 'Narcissus in Bloom' and The History of the Selfie with Matt Colquhoun

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Narcissism is the defining pathology of the twenty-first century,
but what if it is not self-obsession that defines us but a need
for self-transformation?

Narcissus in Bloom is a short history of the self-portrait,
beginning with Renaissance painters like Albrecht Dürer,
Rembrandt and Caravaggio, through to photographers and
celebrities like Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian, Lee Friedlander
and Hervé Guibert.

Analysing the ways that so many artists have regarded their own
image, how might the age of the selfie be considered as a time of
transformation rather than stasis? By returning to the original
tale of Narcissus, and the flower from which he takes his name,
this book offers an alternative reading of narcissism from within
the midst of a moralising subgenre of books that argue our
self-obsession will be the death of us. That may be so. But what
will we become after we have taken the watery track, and rid
ourselves of the cloistered self-image given to us by late
capitalism?

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