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This is a portrait if I say so : identity in American art, 1912 to today / Anne Collins Goodyear, Jonathan Frederick Walz, Kathleen Merrill Campagnolo ; with a contribution by Dorinda Evans.

Contributor(s): Publisher: New Haven : Bowdoin College Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, [2016]Description: xi, 252 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780300211931
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Contents:
Director's foreword
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
Summary: 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 artists from Charles Demuth, Marcel Duchamp, Marsden Hartley, and Georgia O'Keeffe to Janine Antoni, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Roni Horn, Jasper Johns, and Glenn Ligon, this timely publication probes the ways we think about and picture the self and others. With particular focus on three periods during which non-mimetic portraiture flourished - 1912-25, 1961-70, and 1990-the present - the authors investigate issues related to technology, sexuality, artist networks, identity politics, and social media, and explore the emergence of new models for the visual representation of identity. Taking its title from a 1961 work by Robert Rauschenberg - a telegram that stated, "This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so"--This book unites paintings, sculpture, photography, and text portraits that challenge the genre in significant, often playful ways and question the convention, as well as the limits, of traditional portrayal.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Director's foreword

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

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 artists from Charles Demuth, Marcel Duchamp, Marsden Hartley, and Georgia O'Keeffe to Janine Antoni, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Roni Horn, Jasper Johns, and Glenn Ligon, this timely publication probes the ways we think about and picture the self and others. With particular focus on three periods during which non-mimetic portraiture flourished - 1912-25, 1961-70, and 1990-the present - the authors investigate issues related to technology, sexuality, artist networks, identity politics, and social media, and explore the emergence of new models for the visual representation of identity. Taking its title from a 1961 work by Robert Rauschenberg - a telegram that stated, "This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so"--This book unites paintings, sculpture, photography, and text portraits that challenge the genre in significant, often playful ways and question the convention, as well as the limits, of traditional portrayal.