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American Faces: A Cultural History of Portraiture and Identity
Richard H. Saunders
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| #3583416 in eBooks | 2016-09-06 | 2016-08-23 | File type: PDF||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| A social history of genres of portrature for memory, propaganda, egotism, social status and more. A very fine book.|By lyndonbrecht|Books on some subset of art can be unreadable and full of jargon. Unlike those, this is a highly readable, excellently written and superbly illustrated study of portraiture. Note that portraits in this book is not just paintings, but portrait sculp||
“An engaging, light history of the way the United States has embraced images of its people and how these have helped define a national identity.”—ARLIS, Art Libraries Society of North America
Portraits. We know what they are, but why do we make them? Americans have been celebrating themselves in portraits since the arrival of the first itinerant portrait painters to the colonies. They created images to commemorate loved ones, glorify the famous, establish our national myths, and honor our shared heroes. Whether painting in oil, carving in stone, casting in bronze, capturing on film, or calculating in binary code, we spend considerable time creating, contempla...
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