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What explains our current obsession with selfies? In I Love My Selfie noted cultural critic Ilan Stavans explores the selfie's historical and cultural roots by discussing everything from Greek mythology and Shakespeare to Andy Warhol, James Franco, and Pope Francis. He sees selfies as tools people use to disguise or present themselves as spontaneous and casual. This collaboration includes a portfolio of fifty autoportraits by the artist ADAL; he and Stavans use them as a way to question the notion of the self and to engage with artists, celebrities, technology, identity, and politics. Provocative and engaging, I Love My Selfie will change the way readers think about this unavoidable phenomenon of twenty-first-century life.

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Seizing that rare moment when a cultural phenomenon is invading the art world, <i>I Love My Selfie</i> is timely, ground breaking, and is sure to influence many. --Julian Zugazagoitia, Director, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Seizing that rare moment when a cultural phenomenon is invading the art world, I Love My Selfie is timely, ground breaking, and is sure to influence many. -- Julian Zugazagoitia, Director, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

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Ilan Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. A Guggenheim Fellow, he is the author, editor, and translator of numerous books, including Reclaiming Travel, also published by Duke University Press. AdÁl Maldonado is a visual, performance, installation, and video artist; playwright; cofounder of the first all-artist political party in Puerto Rico; the recipient of a Pollock-Krassner Fellowship; and the author of several books, including Out of Focus Nuyoricans.

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