Eye to I : self-portraits from the National Portrait Gallery

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Author

National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution), creator, host institution.

Title

Eye to I : self-portraits from the National Portrait Gallery / editors, Rhys Conlon and Sarah McGavran.

ISBN

9783777432236

3777432237

Publication

Munich : Hirmer Verlag GmbH ; Washington, D.C. : National Portrait Gallery, [2019]

Physical Description

335 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 24 cm

Notes

"This catalogue is published on the occasion of the exhibition Eye to I, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, November 2, 2018-August 18, 2019"--Colophon.

Artists include: Berenice Abbott ; Josef Albers ; Robert Arneson ; William Auerbach-Levy ; Richard Avedon ; Don Bachardy ; Ralph Barton ; Jack Beal ; Jessie Tarbox Beals ; William George Beckman ; George Bellows ; Thomas Hart Benton ; Isabel Bishop ; Louise Bourgeoois ; Paul Cadmus ; A. Stirling Calder ; Alexander Calder ; María Magdalena Campos-Pons ; Federico Castellon ; Enrique Chagoya ; Minerva Chapman ; Roz Chast ; Francesco Clemente ; Chuck Close ; Miguel Covarrubias ; Patricia Cronin ; Imogen Cunningham ; Elaine de Kooning ; Pele deLappe ; Jim Dine ; Lois Dodd ; Aaron Douglas ; Mabel Dwight ; Ralph Ellison ; Walker Evans ; Antonio Frasconi ; Al Frueh ; Aline Fruhauf ; Carmen Lomas Garza ; George Gershwin ; Gregory Gillespie ; Xavier Gonzalez ; John D.Graham ; Red Grooms ; George Grosz ; Philip Guston ; Philippe Halsman ; Victor Hammer ; Bertram Hartman ; Susan Hauptman ; David Hockney ; Hans Hofmann ; Charles Hopkinson ; Edward Hopper ; Lotte Jacobi ; Jasper Johns ; Joan Jonas ; Wolf Kahn ; Allan Kaprow ; Gertrude Käsebier ; Deborah Kass ; Ellsworth Kelly ; Jacob Lawrence ; George Platt Lynes ; Danny Lyon ; Man Ray ; Herman Maril ; Ana Mendieta ; Nickolas Muray ; Catherine Murphy ; Hans Namuth ; Bruce Nauman ; Alice Neel ; Louise Nevelson ; Peter Newell ; Beaumont Newhall ; Arnold Newman ; Brian O'Doherty ; Claes Oldenburg ; Hayward Oubre ; Irving Penn ; Francis Picabia ; James A.Porter ; Robert Rauschenberg ; Jacob Riis ; Faith Ringgold ; Diego Rivera ; Larry Rivers ; Alison Saar ; Lucas Samaras ; Fritz Scholder ; Charles Sheeler ; Roger Shimomura ; Everett Shinn ; Shahzia Sikander ; Burton Silverman ; Lee Simonson ; David Alfaro Siqueiros ; Patti Smith ; Raphael Soyer ; Lucy May Stanton ; Edward Steichen ; Ralph Steiner ; Joseph Stella ; Prentiss Taylor ; Abbott Handerson Thayer ; Tseng Kwong Chi ; Tsuguharu Foujita ; Andy Warhol ; June Wayne ; John H.Wilde ; John Wilson ; Martin Wong ; Beatrice Wood ; Grant Wood ; Marguerite Zorach.

Summary

This richly illustrated book features an introduction by the National Portrait Gallery's chief curator and nearly 150 insightful entries on key self-portraits in the museum's collection. "Eye to I" provides readers with an overview of self-portraiture while revealing the intersections that exist between art, life, and self-representation. Drawing primarily from the museum's collection, "Eye to I" explores how American artists have portrayed themselves since 1900. The book shows that while each individual's approach to self-portraiture arises under unique circumstances, all of their representations raise important questions about self-perception and self-reflection. Sometimes artists choose to reveal intimate details of their inner lives. Other times they use the genre to obfuscate their true selves or invent alter egos. Today, with the proliferation of selfies and the contemporary focus on identity, it is time to reassess the significance of the self-portrait. Exhibition: National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C., USA (02.11.2018-18.28.2019).

Variant and related titles

Eye to eye

Self-portraits from the National Portrait Gallery

Format

Books

Language

English

Added to Catalog

January 11, 2021

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 328-331) and index.

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