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This book wants authority it does not possess and has too many inconsistencies for such an un-wordy book.
The introduction speaks of the artist's relationship with death and how artists bravely document themselves honestly. This is contradicted with the inclusion of Iorenz Strauch's Self-portrait at the Age of Sixty. Where he looks astonishingly young for that age at the time. This book tries to allude to a sense of anonymity and objectivity in the introduction and cover that it mostly fails. It is drenched in influences from the Canon. There are multiple entries from the same artist here making even less room for people of colour or womxn. And I must imagine that the book this is based on was similarly exclusive, so why did someone want to come back to this flawed premise? The title suggests just a random or less restricted selection as does the organization of the works. Which appear to have been organized in an order I am not familiar with. But I don't understand why the work isn't more upfront about the clear biases of it's creators.
The introduction speaks of the artist's relationship with death and how artists bravely document themselves honestly. This is contradicted with the inclusion of Iorenz Strauch's Self-portrait at the Age of Sixty. Where he looks astonishingly young for that age at the time. This book tries to allude to a sense of anonymity and objectivity in the introduction and cover that it mostly fails. It is drenched in influences from the Canon. There are multiple entries from the same artist here making even less room for people of colour or womxn. And I must imagine that the book this is based on was similarly exclusive, so why did someone want to come back to this flawed premise? The title suggests just a random or less restricted selection as does the organization of the works. Which appear to have been organized in an order I am not familiar with. But I don't understand why the work isn't more upfront about the clear biases of it's creators.
