Portraiture
Subtitle: Facing the Subject (Critical Introductions to Art)
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: March 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780719046124
Subjects: Painting & paintings; Theory of art; Portraits; Portrait Painting; Art; Art & Art Instruction; Techniques - Painting; Criticism; Painting - Other Specific Subjects; Identity (Psychology) in art
First sentence: Conventional accounts of portraiture's history regard the genre as a Renaissance invention articulating the rise of the individual.