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Securing the shadow : posthumous portraiture in America

Title
Securing the shadow : posthumous portraiture in America / Stacy C. Hollander ; essay by Gary Laderman ; foreword by Anne-Imdelda Radice.
Author
Hollander, Stacy C.
Publication
  • New York, New York : American Folk Art Museum, [2016]
  • ©2016

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  • Laderman, Gary, 1962-
  • Radice, Anne-Imelda
  • American Folk Art Museum, host institution, publisher, issuing body. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/his http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/isb
Description
237 pages : illustrations, portraits, photographs (chiefly color); 22 cm
Summary
"[This book] is the first museum exhibition dedicated to an examination of American self-taught portraiture of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through the lends of memory and loss." -- Front inside flap.
Alternative Title
Posthumous portraiture in America
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Exhibition catalogs.
  • Illustrated works.
Note
  • Catalog of an exhibition presented October 6, 2016-February 26, 2017 at the American Folk Art Museum, New York.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Language (note)
  • Text in English.
Contents
Securing the shadow : posthumous portraiture in America / Stacy C. Hollander -- Death in early America / Gary Laderman -- Catalog. Gravestones ; Shades and shadows ; Posthumous portraits ; Postmortem daguerreotypes : the Burns family collection -- Exhibition checklist.
ISBN
  • 9780912161327
  • 0912161329
OCLC
  • ocn963239332
  • 963239332
  • SCSB-5880261
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries