Description
Contemporary portraiture offers a way to consider the mutable yet enduring qualities of familial relationships and the internal and external forces that affect our bonds with others. For example, interpretations of distance - whether emotional, physical, or geographical - have recently become more fraught. By recognizing the transformations that occur in the genre of portraiture and the threads that today's portraits share, we can better understand the universality and specificity of kinship.
List of artists: Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Jess T. Dugan, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Jessica Todd Harper, Thomas Holton, Sedrick Huckaby, Anna Tsouhlarakis
About the Author
Dorothy Moss, Curator of Painting and Sculpture, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, and coordinating Curator of the Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative.
Leslie Urena, Curator of Photographs, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.
Book Information
ISBN 9783777439778
Author Dorothy Moss
Format Hardback
Page Count 120
Imprint Hirmer Verlag
Publisher Hirmer Verlag
Weight(grams) 540g