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portraiture in the age of abstraction
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Author
Contributions
- Reaves, Wendy Wick, 1950- author - Contributor
- Ward, David C., 1952- author - Contributor
- Quealy, Patricia, author - Contributor
- Ashbery, John, 1927- writer of supplementary textual content - Contributor
- National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution) - Contributor
Publication
2014 - , District of Columbia
Language
English
Word Count
43,750 words, Guess
Page Count
175 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-101907804420
- ISBN-139781907804427
- Library of Congress Control Number2013950328
- OCLC Control Number859192388
- OCLC Control Number880222725
and 2 more
- Better World Books9781907804427
- Open LibraryOL27168199M
Classifications
- LCCN7593.3 .F33x 2014
- LCCND1300
- LCCND1311.3 .F67 2014
Alternate Titles
- Portraiture in the age of abstraction
Description
A groundbreaking reassessment of the reinvention of portraiture in America between 1945 and 1975 - the period when the abstract expressionists reached international prominence - this new volume presents fifty-five innovative portrait paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures. It includes works by Joan Brown, Alice Neel, Elaine de Kooning, Larry Rivers, Marisol Escobar, Alex Katz, Romare Bearden, Fairfield Porter, Jamie Wyeth, and Andy Warhol, amongst others. It also features a poem by leading New York School poet John Ashbery, specially commissioned for this book.
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