Eye Contact: Modern American Portrait Drawings from the National Portrait Gallery

by National Portrait Gallery, Bernard F. Reilly Jr., Wendy Wick Reaves, et al.

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Conventional wisdom suggests that portraiture lost its relevance in the twentieth century, that it was too tied to representation and biographical narrative to compete. Why then, the vitality of the the National Portrait Gallery's twentieth-century images in " Eye Contact ?" Far from confirming a moribund tradition, these pictures are variously adventurous, assertive, witty, monumental, or confrontational, and all reflect modern aesthetic concerns...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0295982675

ISBN13:9780295982670

Release Date:January 2002

Publisher:University of Washington Press

Length:256 Pages

Weight:3.25 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 9.4" x 12.3"

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