| Description |
333 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps, portraits (chiefly colour) ; 27 cm |
| 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 |
| Notes |
Published in association with D Giles Limited, London |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-321) and index |
| Subject |
Portrait painting.
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Portrait photography.
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| Genre/Form |
Portraits.
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| Author |
Reaves, Wendy Wick, 1950- editor
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National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)
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| ISBN |
9781911282204 (hbk.) |
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