Albert Oehlen Self Portraits Author:Albert Oehlen By stripping the painting down to its basic rules, by using himself as a decisive subject matter, Oehlen created a body of work that diminished the limitations of previous cultural, aesthetic, and artistic obligations made on a painter and painting. This first volume to feature all of Oehlen's early self portraits reveals his balancing of figura... more »tion with abstraction, and his simultaneous questioning of the practice and history of art.« less