Picasso and Portraiture: Representation and Transformation

by Brigitte Leal, Michael C. Fitzgerald, William Rubin

Book Overview

Portraiture has managed to flourish in modern painting in spite of the popularization of photography, the decline of traditional patronage, and modernism's increasing emphasis on abstraction. However problematic modern styles have been for representational art, painters have continued to discover new possibilities in the imaging of the human face. This book explores the challenge of the modernist portrait through the multiple solutions proposed by...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870701436
• ISBN13: 9780870701436
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 6.75 lbs.