Research Catalog

Title

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.

Author

Goodyear, Anne Collins

Publication

• New Haven : Bowdoin College Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, [2016]
• ©2016

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Walz, Jonathan Frederick
• Campagnolo, Kathleen Merrill
• Evans, Dorinda
• Bowdoin College. Museum of Art, host institution, issuing body.

Description

xi, 252 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 29 cm

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 OKeeffe 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.

Alternative Title

Identity in American art, 1912 to today

Subject

• Art, American > 21st century > Exhibitions
• Portraits, American > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Portraits, American > 21st century > Exhibitions
• Art, American > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Identity (Psychology) in art > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• 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.

Bibliography (note)

• 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.

Call Number

JQF 17-574

ISBN

• 9780300211931
• 0300211937

LCCN

2015946696

OCLC

926820756

Author

Goodyear, Anne Collins, author, curator.

Title

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

New Haven : Bowdoin College Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, [2016]

Copyright Date

©2016

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (page 242) and index.

Added Author

Walz, Jonathan Frederick, author, curator.

Campagnolo, Kathleen Merrill, author, curator.

Evans, Dorinda, writer of added commentary.

Bowdoin College. Museum of Art, host institution, issuing body.

Research Call Number

JQF 17-574