The Mirror and the Mask: Portraiture in the Age of Picasso
Portraiture is the unexpected survivor of the modern movement. Even as photography took over the role of recording likeness — and artists questioned the representational basis of art — almost all the most important artists of the 20th century experimented with portraiture, and many made it a central feature of their work. As the commissioned portrait became more the province of specialists working in conservative styles, avant-garde portraiture became an affair between artists, their friends, and — with the proliferation of self-portraits — their own selves. Focusing on avant-garde European paintings and sculpture from the 1890s to the 1980s, The Mirror and the Mask: Portraiture in the Age of Picasso shows the fascinating transformations that portraiture underwent as a flourishing, international phenomenon of the age. Through a spectacular panorama of late 19th- and 20th-century portraits, and using Picasso’s stylistic evolution as a constant point of reference, the book explores how the genre developed in response to artistic movements and great historical events. It features more than 100 paintings and sculptures by artists including Cezanne, Van Gogh, Picasso, Matisse, Modigliani, Kokoschka, Beckmann, Soutine, Dubuffet, Bacon, and Freud.
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Gauguin Paul, Monet Claude, Bacon Francis, Vlaminck Maurice de, Klimt Gustav, Munch Edward, Van Gogh Vincent, Kirchner Ernst Ludwig, Soutine Haime, Corinth Lovis, Kokoschka Oscar, Schiele Egon, Sickert Walter Richard, Beckmann Max, Ensor James, Warhol Andy, Cézanne Paul, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Hockney David, Spencer Stanley, Miró Joan, Malevich Kazimir, Taeuber Sophie, Matisse Henri, Picasso Pablo, Dürer Albrecht
New Haven, Connecticut
2007
338 pages
9780300122510
Available on request
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709.48 2007
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