Changing Perceptions: Milestones in Twentieth-Century British Portraiture

By Elizabeth Cayzer

Book Overview

This book examines the extraordinary metamorphosis that has occurred in the presentation of the human face during the 20th-century. A series of essays charts the portraits which are Milestones to that change, while the discussion which follows - Changing Perceptions - endeavours to identify its nature, its causes, and to show the manner in which the artists reveal this transformation when painting their sitters.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1898595291
• ISBN13: 9781898595298
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 127 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.7" x 11.4"