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Her work was never about self-display, let alone self-dramatization.

From Washington Post • Jan. 18, 2017

At 20, she wore her hair in a mullet and dressed "in neon that hugs in all the wrong places," turning her awkwardness and misery into self-display, and then that self-display into art.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 2, 2014

Sedgwick, like Plimpton, was both tempted by fame and plunged into all the excitement and self-display available in the media world.

From Salon • May 28, 2013

He is, after all, a man who once modeled himself on Pistol Pete Maravich, and there are human rights advocates today who see his recent methods as more about self-display than substance.

From New York Times • Dec. 2, 2010

The superficial counterpart is the desire for self-display with all its variations of vanity and boastfulness.

From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra




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