Face Value: Portraiture in the Age of Abstraction

$55.00 at National Portrait Gallery.

Reports of its death were exaggerated but persistent in the art world; in mid-twentieth century America, everyone seemed to agree that portraiture was finished as a progressive art form. A groundbreaking reassessment of the reinvention of portraiture in America between 1945 and 1975— the period when the abstract expressionists reached international prominence— this new volume presents fifty-five innovative portrait paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures. It features works by Joan Brown…