Philip Akkerman, Zelfportretten (Self-portraits)

Catalogue published at the occasion of the exhibition Philip Akkerman – Self-portraits, 16 May – 12 July 1992. The exhibition presented 450 self-portraits, dating from 1981 until 1992, along with an archive of 676 drawings and autobiographical notebooks in which Akkerman commented on the creation of his works.

650 copies; Dutch/English
size 16 x 23 cm; 148 pages, 100 color photographs

Contents:
Introduction by Chris Dercon and Gosse Oosterhof
Texts by Jan van Adrichem, “The Self-portraits of Philip Akkerman;”
Bert Jansen, “Self-portraits as the Recollection of Painting;”
Johan Polak, “The Changing Expression of the Countenance. A Dialogue;”
Bart Verschaffel, “Fare bella figura?”
Biography/Bibliography

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