Liz Rideal is an artist and writer. She is a Reader in Fine Art in the Painting Department at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, UK, and a lecturer and educational resource writer at the National Portrait Gallery, London. She has exhibited widely in Europe and the USA, including two major retrospectives. Her own artwork is held in public collections including the Tate, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the British Museum, Yale Center for British Art, the Portland Art Museum and George Eastman House. She is the author of Mirror Mirror: Self-Portraits by Women Artists (2001) and Insights: Self-Portraits (2005).

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• IntroductionPart 1: Grammar of PaintingsShape and SupportMedium and MaterialsCompositionStyle and TechniqueSigns and SymbolsThe ArtistPart 2: Paintings in DetailPortraitLandscapeNarrativeStill LifeAbstractionAppendicesGlossaryDirectory of PaintingsDirectory of GalleriesIndexAcknowledgements

Liz Rideal is an artist and writer. She is a Reader in Fine Art in the Painting Department at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, UK, and a lecturer and educational resource writer at the National Portrait Gallery, London. She has exhibited widely in Europe and the USA, including two major retrospectives. Her own artwork is held in public collections including the Tate, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the British Museum, Yale Center for British Art, the Portland Art Museum and George Eastman House. She is the author of Mirror Mirror: Self-Portraits by Women Artists (2001) and Insights: Self-Portraits (2005).

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• IntroductionPart 1: Grammar of PaintingsShape and SupportMedium and MaterialsCompositionStyle and TechniqueSigns and SymbolsThe ArtistPart 2: Paintings in DetailPortraitLandscapeNarrativeStill LifeAbstractionAppendicesGlossaryDirectory of PaintingsDirectory of GalleriesIndexAcknowledgements

Liz Rideal is an artist and writer. She is a Reader in Fine Art in the Painting Department at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, UK, and a lecturer and educational resource writer at the National Portrait Gallery, London. She has exhibited widely in Europe and the USA, including two major retrospectives. Her own artwork is held in public collections including the Tate, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the British Museum, Yale Center for British Art, the Portland Art Museum and George Eastman House. She is the author of Mirror Mirror: Self-Portraits by Women Artists (2001) and Insights: Self-Portraits (2005).

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• IntroductionPart 1: Grammar of PaintingsShape and SupportMedium and MaterialsCompositionStyle and TechniqueSigns and SymbolsThe ArtistPart 2: Paintings in DetailPortraitLandscapeNarrativeStill LifeAbstractionAppendicesGlossaryDirectory of PaintingsDirectory of GalleriesIndexAcknowledgements