Narcissus in Bloom no-tag Hike the Hermit trail

Hike the Hermit trail

energetic and riotously funny read

other lives and other territories

This work challenges the idea that empowerment is exclusively a feminist concept reserved for women

This book is an attempt to glimpse Napoleon’s character without the veneer of imperial glory

Narcissus in Bloom no-tag Hike the Hermit trailNarcissism is the defining pathology of the twenty first century, but what if it is not self obsession that defines us but a need for self transformation? Narcissus in Bloom is a short history of the self portrait, beginning with Renaissance painters like Albrecht Durer, Rembrandt and Caravaggio, through to photographers and celebrities like Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian, Lee Friedlander and Herve Guibert. Analysing the ways that so many artists