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• Title:Face value : portraiture in the age of abstraction / Brandon Brame Fortune, Wendy Wick Reaves, David C. Ward ; with Patricia Quealy and a new poem for this volume by John Ashbery.
  
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• Author/Creator:Fortune, Brandon Brame, author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Reaves, Wendy Wick, 1950- author.
  Ward, David C., 1952- author.
  Quealy, Patricia, author.
  Ashbery, John, 1927-2017 author.
  National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution), host institution.
  
• Published/Created:London : D Giles Limited, 2014.
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: ND1311.3 .F67 2014
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Potrait painting, American--20th century--Exhibitions.
  Portraits, American--20th century--Exhibitions.
  Portrait painters--United States.
  
• Description:175 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 32 cm
  
• Summary: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 sculptures. It includes works by Joan Brown, Alice Neel, Elaine de Kooning, Larry Rivers, Marisol Escobar, Alex Katz, Romare Bearden, Fairfield Porter, Jamie Wyeth, and Andy Warhol, amongst others. It also features a poem by leading New York School poet John Ashbery, specially commissioned for this book.
  
• Notes:"Published to accompany the exhibition 'Face Value: Portraiture in the Age of Abstraction' at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (April 18, 2014-January 11, 2015)"
  Includes bibliography (pages 166-171) and index.
  
• ISBN:9781907804427 (hardback)
  1907804420 (hardback)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: Face of Change: American Society and Portraiture, 1945
  1975 / David C. Ward
  Face Value: Portraiture in the Age of Abstraction / Brandon Brame Fortune.