Research Catalog
Portraiture
- Title
- Portraiture / Shearer West.
- Author
- West, Shearer
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | N7575 .W47 2004 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 256 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 24 cm
- Summary
- "Shearer West traces the history of portraiture from the ancient world to the work of artists such as Tracey Emin and the Singh twins. She looks at the genre from a varity of perspectives, asking key question about its development. What is its function? How has it changed over the centuries? What problems do artists encounter in representing their subjects, and how have portraits been interpreted? Shearer West uncovers much intriguing detail about a genre that has often been seen as purely representational, and in doing so shows us how to communicate with the past in an exciting new way."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Oxford history of art
- Uniform Title
- Oxford history of art
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Electronic books.
- Portrait.
- portraits.
- group portraits.
- Portraits
- History
- Portraits.
- Portraits de groupe.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-234) and index.
- Contents
- What is a portrait? -- Functions of portraiture -- Power and status -- Group portraiture -- Stages of life -- Gender and portraiture -- Self portraiture -- Portraiture and modernism -- Identities.
- ISBN
- 0192842587
- 9780192842589
- 9786610760022
- 6610760020
- LCCN
- 2004558274
- OCLC
- ocm51315264
- 51315264
- SCSB-1329070
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library