Face Value: Portraiture in the Age of Abstraction

by Wendy Wick Reaves, Brandon Brame Fortune, David C. Ward

Reports of its death were exaggerated but persistent in the art world; in mid-twentieth century America, everyone seemed to agree that portraiture was finished as a progressive art form. A groundbreaking reassessment of the reinvention of portraiture in America between 1945 and 1975--the period when the abstract expressionists reached international prominence--this new volume presents fifty-five innovative portrait paintings, drawings, prints, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1907804420
• ISBN13: 9781907804427
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Giles
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.4" x 12.3"