What explains our current obsession with selfies? In I Love My Selfie noted cultural critic Ilan Stavans explores the selfie's historical and cultural roots by discussing everything from Greek mythology and Shakespeare to Andy Warhol, James Franco, and Pope Francis. He sees selfies as tools people use to disguise or present themselves as spontaneous and casual. This collaboration includes a portfolio of fifty autoportraits by the artist ADÁL; he and Stavans use them as a way to question the notion of the self and to engage with artists, celebrities, technology, identity, and politics. Provocative and engaging, I Love My Selfie will change the way readers think about this unavoidable phenomenon of twenty-first-century life.
- ISBN10 0822363496
- ISBN13 9780822363491
- Publish Date 16 May 2017 (first published 1 March 2017)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Duke University Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 152
- Language English