The Portrait's Subject: Inventing Inner Life in the Nineteenth-Century United States
(Part of the Studies in United States Culture Series)
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Between the invention of photography in 1839 and the end of the nineteenth century, portraiture became one of the most popular and common art forms in the United States. In The Portrait's Subject, Sarah Blackwood tells a wide-ranging story about how images of human surfaces came to signal expressions of human depth during this era in paintings, photographs, and illustrations, as well as in literary and cultural representations of portrait making...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1469652595
ISBN13:9781469652597
Release Date:December 2019
Publisher:University of North Carolina Press
Length:216 Pages
Weight:0.74 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"
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