Hanging the head : portraiture and social formation in eighteenth-century England
1993, First Edition. New Haven : Yale University Press. Near fine paperback copy; wrapper edges very slightly dulled. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #480901
ISBN: 0300073682
Series; Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Physical description; ix, 278 pages : illustrations, some colour, portraits ; 26 cm. Notes; Winner of the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award, 1994. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Part I, Biography: System: Portrait: Spaces of Portrayal -- Illustrious Heads -- Significant and Insignificant Lives. Part II, The Portrait and Its Subject: Dangerous Excrescences: Wigs, Hair, and Masculinity -- Going Turkish in Eighteenth-Century London -- The Conversation Piece -- The State of a Child. Epilogue: The Foundation of the National Portrait Gallery, London. Subjects; Portrait painting, English History, 18th century. Portraits Social aspects England. National Portrait Gallery (London, England).
Price: €60.00