This is a portrait if I say so : identity in American art, 1912 to today /

"This groundbreaking book traces the history of portraiture as a site of radical artistic experimentation, as it shifted from a genre based on mimesis to one stressing instead conceptual and symbolic associations between artist and subject. Featuring over 100 color illustrations of works by art...

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Other Authors: Goodyear, Anne Collins (Contributor), Walz, Jonathan Frederick, 1970- (Contributor), Campagnolo, Kathleen Merrill (Contributor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [Brunswick, Me.] : New Haven : Bowdoin College Museum of Art ; In association with Yale University Press, [2016]
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Table of Contents:
  • This is a portrait if I say so: identity in American art, 1912 to today / Anne Collins Goodyear, Jonathan Frederick Walz, and Kathleen Merrill Campagnolo
  • An American prelude to the abstract portrait / Dorinda Evans
  • Portraiture "at the service of the mind": American modernism, representation, and subjectivity from the Armory show to the Great Depression / Jonathan Frederick Walz
  • In the company of cultural provocateurs: radical portraiture in the 1960s / Kathleen Merrill Campagnolo
  • On the birth of the subject and the defacement of portraiture / Anne Collins Goodyear
  • Catalogue.