<P>Reading life writing that runs from Tracey Emin, Faith Ringgold and Judy Chicago to Marie Bashkirtseff, Benvenuto Cellini and beyond, <I>Artists and Their Autobiographies from Today to the Renaissance and Back </I>investigates the intriguing doubled truths of artists'' autobiographies: truth in life and truth in art; authorial truth/s and the truth of their art as they saw it. However, this book focuses specifically on the truth of sincerity, which here-following classic discussions by Reindert Dhondt, Philippe Lejeune and Lionel Trilling-appears as a truth to self that floats free from facts to link avowal and feeling. From there, this volume merges autobiography studies with a history of ideas approach to art to trace sincerity''s constancy and variability across times and cultures. Through this pre-disciplinary dialogue, this book shows that recent and historical artists'' autobiographies differ in how, not if, they intertwine sincerity in life and art. Along the way, this volume
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