Portraiture
Subtitle: Facing the Subject (Critical Introductions to Art)
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: March 15, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780719046148
Subjects: Painting & paintings; Theory of art; Techniques - General; Identity (Psychology) in art; Psychology; Art; Techniques - Painting - Specific Subjects; Criticism; General; Art / Criticism; Portraits
First sentence: Conventional accounts of portraiture's history regard the genre as a Renaissance invention articulating the rise of the individual.