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Beyond the face, new perspectives on portraiture, edited by Wendy Wick Reaves

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Beyond the face, new perspectives on portraiture, edited by Wendy Wick Reaves

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

portraitsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Beyond the face

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1028209105

Responsibility statement

edited by Wendy Wick Reaves

Sub title

new perspectives on portraiture

Summary

Presents sixteen essays by leading scholars who explore the subtle means by which artists - and subjects - convey a sense of identity and reveal historical context. Examining a wide range of topics, from early caricature and the political vandalism of portraits to contemporary selfies and performance art, these studies challenge our traditional assumptions about portraiture. By probing the diversity and complexity of portrayal, this book fills a gap in current scholarship and offers a resource fro teaching art history, subjectivity, and the construction of identity

Table Of Contents

Body politics : Copley's portraits as political effigies during the American Revolution / Lauren Lessing, Nina Roth-Wells, Terri Sabatos -- Prince Demah and the profession of portrait painting / Jennifer Van Horn -- "Capital Likenesses" : George Washington, the federal city, and economic selfhood in American portraiture / Ross Barrett -- Caricature portraits and early American identity / Allison M. Stagg -- Reconstruction reconsidered : the Gordon Collection of the National Portrait Gallery / Kate C. Lemay -- Cloud of witnesses : painting history through combinative portraiture / Christopher Allison -- "Let Me Take Your Head" photographic portraiture and the Gilded Age celebrity image / Erin Pauwels -- Soul-searching : the portrait in Gilded Age America / Akela Reason -- Playing against type : Frank Matsura's photographic performances / ShiPu Wang -- The other's other : portrait photography in Latin America, 1890-1930 / Juanita Solano Roa -- Photos of style and dignity : Woodard's studio and the delivery of black modern subjectivity / Amy Mooney -- Side eye : early-twentieth-century American portraiture on the periphery / Jonathan Frederick Walz -- "Call It a Little Game between I and Me" Mar/Cel Duchamp in the Wilson-Lincoln System / Anne Goodyear -- Making sense of our selfie nation / Richard H. Saunders -- Habla LAMADRE : María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Carrie Mae Weems, and black feminist performance / Nikki A. Greene -- Meaningful (dis)placements : the portrait of Luis Muñoz Marín by Francisco Rodón at the National Portrait Gallery / Taína Caragol

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New perspectives on portraiture

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