American faces: a cultural history of portraiture and identity
Auteur :
Saunders, Richard H.
Éditeur :
University Press of New England
ISBN :
9781611688924
Date de publication :
18 oct. 2016
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Americans have been celebrating themselves in portraits since the arrival of the first itinerant portrait painters to the colonies. Whether painting in oil, carving in stone, casting in bronze, capturing on film, or calculating in binary code, we spend considerable time creating, contemplating, and collecting our likenesses.