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Subtitle: portraiture in the age of abstraction
By: Brandon Brame Fortune, Wendy Wick Reaves, David C. Ward with Patricia Quealy ; and a new poem for this volume by John Ashbery
Contributors: Reaves, Wendy Wick, 1950- author; Ward, David C., 1952- author; Quealy, Patricia, author; Ashbery, John, 1927- writer of supplementary textual content; National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9781907804427
Subjects: American Portraits; Portrait painting; Exhibitions; American Portrait painting
Other titles: Portraiture in the age of abstraction
Description: A groundbreaking reassessment of the reinvention of portraiture in America between 1945 and 1975 - the period when the abstract expressionists reached international prominence - this new volume presents fifty-five innovative portrait paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures. It includes works by Joan Brown, Alice Neel, Elaine de Kooning, Larry Rivers, Marisol Escobar, Alex Katz, Romare Bearden, Fairfield Porter, Jamie Wyeth, and Andy Warhol, amongst others. It also features a poem by leading New York School poet John Ashbery, specially commissioned for this book.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of Columbia, April 18, 2014-January 11, 2015.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-171) and index.