02498oam 22004814a 450 991095603480332120170922081344.097816116889311611688930(CKB)3710000000916304(MiAaPQ)EBC4729860(OCoLC)961456068(MdBmJHUP)muse50911(Perlego)2236668(EXLCZ)99371000000091630420160210d2016 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierAmerican Faces A Cultural History of Portraiture and Identity /Richard H. SaundersHanover, [New Hampshire] ;London, [England] :University Press of New England,2016.©20161 online resource (258 pages) color illustrations, photographs9781611688924 1611688922 Includes bibliographical references.The rich -- Portraits for everyone -- Fame -- Propaganda -- Self and audience -- Rituals, power, and memory -- The gallery.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. National characteristics, American, in artPortraits, AmericanThemes, motivesElectronic books. National characteristics, American, in art.Portraits, AmericanThemes, motives.704.9/420973Saunders Richard H.1949-1810419MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910956034803321American Faces4361748UNINA