{"product_id":"books-self-portrait-by-celia-paul","title":"Self-Portrait","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Painfully honest on what it means to be a woman who puts art first, no matter what' Olivia Laing\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI'm not a portrait painter. If I'm anything, I have always been an autobiographer.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSelf-Portrait\u003c\/i\u003e, Celia Paul reveals a life truly lived through art. She moves effortlessly through time, in words and images, from her arrival at the Slade School of Fine Art at sixteen, through a profound and intense affair with the older and better-known artist Lucian Freud, to the practices of her present-day studio. This intimate memoir is, at its heart, about a young woman navigating the path to artistic freedom, with all the sacrifices and complications that entails.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Powerful' Zadie Smith\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Engrossing' \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Captivating... Mesmerising' \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e**Shortlisted for the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize **\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54420109885713,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781529111552.jpg?v=1787575198","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-self-portrait-by-celia-paul","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}