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Face value : portraiture in the age of abstraction / Brandon Brame Fortune, Wendy Wick Reaves, David C. Ward ; with Patricia Quealy ; and a new poem for this volume by John Ashbery.

by Fortune, Brandon Brame, author.

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Washington, D.C. : National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution ; London : In association with D. Giles Limited, c2014.

Portraits, American -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.

97819078044279 hardback)

1907804420 (hardback)

175 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 32 cm

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 includes works by Joan Brown, Alice Neel, Elaine de Kooning, Larry Rivers, Marisol Escobar, Alex Katz, Romare Bearden, Fairfield Porter, Jamie Wyeth, and Andy Warhol, amongst others. It also features a poem by leading New York School poet John Ashbery, specially commissioned for this book.

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