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Beyond the Face

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Explores new approaches to portraying identity and the human face and figure, through works from the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery’s collections and other institutions.
  • 04 September 2018
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Is there more to portraiture than eyes meeting eyes? Beyond the Face: New Perspectives on Portraiture 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 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, Beyond the Face fills a gap in current scholarship and offers a resource for teaching art history, subjectivity, and the construction of identity.

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Price: $35.00
Pages: 328
Publisher: D Giles Limited
Imprint: GILES
Publication Date: 04 September 2018
Trim Size: 10.25 X 9.25 in
ISBN: 9781911282204
Format: Hardcover
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Wendy Wick Reaves is senior curator of prints and drawings, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. She started the graphic arts department at the Portrait Gallery in 1974. The collections she has developed include fine art prints, drawings, rare books, cartoons, caricatures, and posters. Reaves has curated numerous exhibitions and served as the Portrait Gallery’s interim director from June 2012 through March 2013. Reaves has published books on the prints of George Washington, nineteenth-century portrait prints, twentieth-century portrait drawings, celebrity caricature, and the editorial cartoons of Pat Oliphant, as well as many articles. Her book Eye Contact: Modern American Portrait Drawings from the National Portrait Gallery (2002) was nominated for a Charles Rufus Morey Award and a George Wittenborn Memorial Award for distinguished scholarship in art history. Reaves earned a master’s degree from the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture and is a member and former board member of the Print Council of America.
Foreword by Kim Sajet
  • Introduction by Wendy Wick Reaves
  • Body Politics: Copley’s Portraits as Political Effigies during the American Revolution by Lauren Lessing, Nina Roth-Wells, Terri Sabatos
  • Prince Demah and the Profession of Portrait Painting by Jennifer Van Horn
  • “Capital Likenesses”: George Washington, the Federal City, and Economic Selfhood in American Portraiture by Ross Barrett
  • Caricature Portraits and Early American Identity by Allison M. Stagg
  • Reconstruction Reconsidered: The Gordon Collection of the National Portrait Gallery by Kate C. Lemay
  • Cloud of Witnesses: Painting History through Combinative Portraiture by Christopher Allison
  • “Let Me Take Your Head”: Photographic Portraiture and the Gilded Age Celebrity Image by Erin Pauwels
  • Soul-Searching: The Portrait in Gilded Age America by Akela Reason
  • Playing against Type: Frank Matsura’s Photographic Performances by ShiPu Wang
  • The Other’s Other: Portrait Photography in Latin America, 1890–1930 by Juanita Solano Roa
  • Photos of Style and Dignity: Woodard’s Studio and the Delivery of Black Modern Subjectivity by Amy Mooney
  • Side Eye: Early-Twentieth-Century American Portraiture on the Periphery by Jonathan Frederick Walz
  • “Call It a Little Game between I and Me”: Mar/Cel Duchamp in the Wilson-Lincoln System by Anne Goodyear
  • Making Sense of Our Selfie Nation by Richard H. Saunders
  • Habla LAMADRE: María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Carrie Mae Weems, and Black Feminist Performance by Nikki A. Greene
  • Meaningful (Dis)placements: The Portrait of Luis Muñoz Marín by Francisco Rodón at the National Portrait Gallery by Taína Caragol
  • Further Reading
  • Image Credits
  • Index