1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910221355403321

Titolo

9: Ostetricia e ginecologia / [di] F. v. Winckel ... [et al.] ; trad. dei dottori Serafino Patellani e  Antonio Cioja

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano : Società editrice libraria, stampa 1906

Descrizione fisica

856 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Locazione

FMEBC

Collocazione

90 CCH MEDICINA 72 (9)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910956034803321

Autore

Saunders Richard H. <1949->

Titolo

American Faces : A Cultural History of Portraiture and Identity / / Richard H. Saunders

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hanover, [New Hampshire] ; ; London, [England] : , : University Press of New England, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

9781611688931

1611688930

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (258 pages) : color illustrations, photographs

Disciplina

704.9/420973

Soggetti

National characteristics, American, in art

Portraits, American - Themes, motives

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

The rich -- Portraits for everyone -- Fame -- Propaganda -- Self and audience -- Rituals, power, and memory -- The gallery.



Sommario/riassunto

Portraits. We know what they are, but why do we make them? Americans have been celebrating themselves in portraits since the arrival of the first itinerant portrait painters to the colonies. They created images to commemorate loved ones, glorify the famous, establish our national myths, and honor our shared heroes. Whether painting in oil, carving in stone, casting in bronze, capturing on film, or calculating in binary code, we spend considerable time creating, contemplating, and collecting our likenesses. In this sumptuously illustrated book, Richard H. Saunders explores our collective understanding of portraiture, its history in America, how it shapes our individual and national identity, and why we make portraits-whether for propaganda and public influence or for personal and private appreciation. American Faces is a rich and fascinating view of ourselves.