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 ; with a contribution by Dorinda Evans.
Publisher:
Bowdoin College Museum of Art ;
Copyright Date:
2016
Description:
xi, 252 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name that took place at Bowdoin College Museum of Art, June 25-October 23, 2016. Includes bibliographical references (page 242) and index.
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 services of the mind": American modernism, representation, and subjectivity from the armory show to the Great Depression / Jonathatn Frederick Walz -- In the company of cultural provocatures: radical portraiture in the 1960s / Kathleen Merrill Campagnolo -- On the birth of the subject and the defacement of portraiture / Anne Collins Goodyear -- Catalogue.
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"--Publisher's website.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.