Anne Collins Goodyear is co-director of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Jonathan Frederick Walz is curator of American art at the Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Kathleen Merrill Campagnolo is an independent curator and scholar. Dorinda Evans is professor emerita, art history, Emory University.
“While the rise of identity politics since the early 1990s has
subjected ideas of the nature and representation of identity to
scrutiny, there has been no single publication that focuses on
artists’ development of radical alternative strategies in
portraiture. The authors of This Is a Portrait If I Say So
are to be applauded for addressing this important and
neglected subject, and for the original and significant
questions that their project raises.”—Paul Moorhouse, National
Portrait Gallery, London
*Paul Moorhouse*
“Given the scholarly attention devoted to portraiture in recent
years, and the growing number of major exhibitions that look at the
genre, This Is a Portrait If I Say So is a timely
intervention. One of its great strengths is the absolutely
fascinating and unusual array of portraits chosen for
examination.”—Shearer West, University of Sheffield
*Shearer West*
“[This] book explores how different artists investigate the meaning
of identity through a range of issues, from sexuality and
technology to race and politics . . . [to] reveal both the
expansiveness and the diversity within the genre of American
portraiture.”—The Magazine Antiques
*The Magazine Antiques*
“In a time when identity, politics, and technology are so prevalent
in our daily lives, This is a Portrait If I Say So reveals a new
narrative of the progression of portraiture in American
art.”—Mackenzie Salisbury, ARLIS/NA Reviews
*ARLIS/NA Reviews*
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