Retratos : 2,000 years of Latin American portraits / Elizabeth P. Benson ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Benson, Elizabeth P.

National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)

Museo del Barrio (New York, N.Y.)

San Antonio Museum of Art.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Portraits--Latin America.

Portraits.

Portrait painting, Latin American.

Portrait painting, Mexican.

Latin America.

Genre:

Catalogs.

Physical Description:

302 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map, portraits (chiefly color) ; 31 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2004]

Summary:

A landmark survey of Latin American portraiture and its powerful significance throughout history, "Retratos" reveals how the tradition of portraiture in Latin America is astonishingly long and rich. This beautiful and wide-ranging book is the first to explore the tradition of portraiture in Latin America from pre-Columbian times to the present day. 200 works included.

Contents:

Overview through time and space

Faces of Precolumbian society

Portraiture during the viceregal era (1492-1810)

The nineteenth century: independence and national identity (1810-1910)

Portraits in the modern period: point and counterpoint (1910-1980)

Contemporary portraiture (1980-present).

Notes:

"In association with San Antonio Museum of Art ; National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution ; and El Museo del Barrio."--T.p. verso.

Issued in connection with an exhibition held Dec. 3, 2004-Mar. 20, 2005, El Museo del Barrio, New York, and at four other museums at later dates.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-291) and index.

ISBN:

0300106270

1883502128

OCLC:

55955322