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Portraiture /

This fascinating new book explores the world of portraiture from a number of vantage points, and asks key questions about its nature. How has portraiture changed over the centuries? How have portraits represented their subjects, and how have they been interpreted? Issues of identity, modernity, and...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: West, Shearer
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Series:Oxford history of art.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • What is a portrait?
  • Functions of portraiture
  • Power and status
  • Group portraiture
  • The stages of life
  • Gender and portraiture
  • Self portraiture
  • Portraiture and modernism
  • Identities.