The Mirror And The Mask: Portraiture In The Age Of Picasso

The Mirror And The Mask: Portraiture In The Age Of Picasso

An unparalleled and beautifully illustrated account of the portrait in modern art Portraiture is the unexpected survivor of the modern movement. Even as photography took over the role of recording likeness-and artists questioned the representational basis of art-almost all the most important artists of the 20th century experimented with portraiture, and many made it a central feature of their work. As the commissioned portrait became more the province of specialists working in conservative styles, avant-garde portraiture became an affair between artists, their friends, and-with the proliferation of self-portraits-their own selves. Focusing on avant-garde European paintings and sculpture from the 1890s to the 1980s,The Mirror and the Mask: Portraiture in the Age of Picasso shows the fascinating transformations that