Self-Portraits"Art dies the moment it acquires authority." So said Japan's quintessential rebel writer Osamu Dazai, who, disgusted with the hypocrisy of every kind of establishment, from the nation's obsolete aristocracy to its posturing, warmongering generals, went his own way, even when that meant his deathand the death of others. Faced with pressure to conform, he declared his individuality to the worldin all its self involved, self conscious, and self hating