TY  - BOOK
AU  - West,Shearer
ED  - Oxford University Press.
TI  - Portraiture
T2  - Oxford history of art
SN  - 9780192842589
AV  - N7575 .W47 2004
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Portraits
KW  - History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-234) and index; -- What is a portrait?; -- Functions of portraiture; -- Power and status; -- Group portraiture; -- Stages of life; -- Gender and portraiture; -- Self portraiture; -- Portraiture and modernism; -- Identities
N2  - "Shearer West traces the history o  f portraiture from the ancient world to the work of artists such as Tracey Emin and the Singh twins. She looks at the genre from a varity of perspectives, asking key question about its development. What is its function? How has it changed over the centuries? What problems do artists encounter in representing their subjects, and how have portraits been interpreted? Shearer West uncovers much intriguing detail about a genre that has often been seen as purely representational, and in doing so shows us how to communicate with the past in an exciting new way."--BOOK JACKET
ER  -