norman rockwell

• ''reflexivity can be individual or collective, private or public, and may appear in any form of human communication: arts, natural science, the science of humanity or any other contrived uses of, or comments on, experience. though it may seem modish and new, the idea of reflexivity is indeed very old, existing in the natural as well as the social world. as an example, consider storytelling, an ancient and apparently universal human occupation.
  in all cultures and times we find embedded tales, stories about storytelling. scherezade's 1001 nights is a famous example; sinbad's version of scherezade's exploits is a story about a storyteller telling stories. and usually there is a satisfying replication between stories and their frames; we learn about sinbad by observing scherezade and vice versa. lest one is inclined to regard reflexivity as confined to the intelligentsia, it should be noted that norman rockwell a popular artist, was fond of using this technique. one of his saturday evening post covers shows him painting the cover in which the magazine itself appears with a picture of him painting the cover.''
  
  a crack in the mirror: reflexive perspectives in anthropology.
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