Research Catalog

Title

Hung Liu : portraits of promised lands / Dorothy Moss ; with Nancy Lim, Lucy R. Lippard, Elizabeth Partridge, and Philip Tinari.

Author

Liu, Hung, 1948-2021

Publication

• Washington, DC : National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution ; New Haven, CT : in association with Yale University Press, [2021]
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

• Moss, Dorothy, 1952-
• Lim, Nancy (Curatorial assistant)
• Lippard, Lucy R.
• Partridge, Elizabeth
• Tinari, Philip
• National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution), host institution, publisher.

Description

217 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color portraits; 29 cm

Summary

"'Hung Liu : Portraits of Promised Lands' presents the multilayered work of this contemporary Chinese American artist, whose paintings have established new frameworks for understanding portraiture in relation to time, memory, and history. Often sourcing her subjects from photographs, Liu (b. 1948) elevates overlooked individuals by amplifying the stories of those who have historically been invisible or unheard. This richly illustrated book examines six decades of Liu's painting, photography, and drawing. Dorothy Moss illuminates the importance of family photographs in Liu's work ; Nancy Lim examines the origins of Liu's artistic practice ; Lucy R. Lippard explores issues of identity and multiculturalism ; and Elizabeth Partridge focuses on Liu's recent series based on Dorothea Lange's Depression-era photographs. Philip Tinari conveys Liu's impact on contemporary art, and artists Judy Chicago, Amy Sherald, and Carrie Mae Weems, among others, reflect on the significance of he work. Having lived through war, political revolution, exile, and displacement, Liu paints a complex picture of an Asian Pacific American experience. Her portraits speak powerfully to those seeking a better life, in the United States and elsewhere."--Taken from back cover

Alternative Title

Portraits of promised lands

Subject

• Liu, Hung, 1948-2021 > Exhibitions
• Liu, Hung, 1948-2021
• 2000-2099
• Painting, Chinese > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Painting, Chinese > 21st century > Exhibitions
• Portrait painting, Chinese > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Portrait painting, Chinese > 21st century > Exhibitions
• Chinese in art > Exhibitions
• Painting from photographs > Exhibitions
• Chinese American artists > Exhibitions
• Women artists > United States > Exhibitions
• Portrait painting, Chinese
• Chinese American artists
• Painting, Chinese

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-209) and index.

Exhibitions (note)

• Published to accompany the exbition Hung Liu: Portraits of Promised Lands at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (August 27, 2021-May 29, 2022).

Contents

Donors -- Director's Foreword / Kim Sajet -- Interface : Hung Liu's family portraits and their afterlives / Dorothy Moss -- Picturing the cultural revolution : Hung Liu's early work / Nancy Lim -- Plates : Part I -- Hung Liu : China trade / Lucy R. Lippard -- Deeply familiar : Hung Liu and Dorothea Lange / Elizabeth Partridge -- Hung Liu : Passer-by / Philip Tinari -- Plates : Part II -- Artists reflections -- Enrique Chagoya -- Judy Chicago -- Mel Chin -- Yu Hong -- Martin Mull -- Amy Sherald -- Stephanie Syjuco -- Lava Thomas -- Carrie Mae Weems -- Liu Xiaodong -- Chronology / Jeff Kelley -- Selected references -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- Illustration credits.

Call Number

JQF 22-891

ISBN

• 9780300257441
• 0300257449

OCLC

1198556697

Author

Liu, Hung, 1948-2021, artist.

Title

Hung Liu : portraits of promised lands / Dorothy Moss ; with Nancy Lim, Lucy R. Lippard, Elizabeth Partridge, and Philip Tinari.

Publisher

Washington, DC : National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution ; New Haven, CT : in association with Yale University Press, [2021]

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-209) and index.

Exhibitions

Published to accompany the exbition Hung Liu: Portraits of Promised Lands at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (August 27, 2021-May 29, 2022).

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Added Author

Moss, Dorothy, 1952- author.

Lim, Nancy (Curatorial assistant), writer of supplementary textual content.

Lippard, Lucy R., contributor.

Partridge, Elizabeth, contributor.

Tinari, Philip, contributor.

National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution), host institution, publisher.

Research Call Number

JQF 22-891