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Ego: The Strange and Wonderful World of Self-Portraits

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes

on BBC Four

Laura Cumming takes a journey through more than 500 years of self-portraits and finds out how the greatest names in western art transformed themselves into their own masterpieces. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Laura Cumming
Interviewed Guest:
Julian Barnes
Interviewed Guest:
Mark Wallinger
Interviewed Guest:
Simon Callow
Interviewed Guest:
Patrick Hughes
Interviewed Guest:
Ulrike Hirhager
Interviewed Guest:
Tai Shan Schierenberg
Executive Producer:
Michael Poole

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