The Portrait's Subject: Inventing Inner Life in the Nineteenth-Century United States

by Sarah Blackwood

Book Overview

Between the invention of photography in 1839 and the end of the nineteenth century, portraiture became one of the most popular and common art forms in the United States. In The Portrait's Subject, Sarah Blackwood tells a wide-ranging story about how images of human surfaces came to signal expressions of human depth during this era in paintings, photographs, and illustrations, as well as in literary and cultural representations of portrait making...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469652595
• ISBN13: 9781469652597
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"