The most widely admired paintings by Andy Warhol - and the most reviled - are his portraits. About Face, which accompanies an exhibition organized by the Wadsworth Atheneum, presents the first overview of Warhol's portraiture to embrace all periods and media. About face refers both to Warhol's fascination with images of the human face and to his characteristic method of reversal. For example, Warhol reverses the portraitist's goal to capture the essence of a subject's individuality in his factory production of Warhol portraits. His portraits are about the creation of faces (as the public masks onto which identity is projected) rather than the revealing of a true self. Warhol's portraits, which reveal the artificial aspects of public identity, intitiate a democracy of fame and beauty, where everyone has superstar potential.

About Face: Andy Warhol Portraits

Arts & Photography

Baume, Nicholas

Wadsworth Atheneum

Crimp, Douglas

Meyer, Richard

WARHOL, Andy.

Miami Art Museum of Dade County

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

The Wadsworth Atheneum/The Andy Warhol Museum/MIT Press

This publication accompanies a major exhibition organized by the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut, and the National Gallery of Australia. It features some fifty American and fifty Australian landscape paintings produced during the period when landscape became the focus for artists in both countries. In both traditions landscapes trace the ever-changing complexities of bringing what is known to the experience of the unknown, exploring the profound relationship that we have with the land on which we live. Many of America's finest landscape painters are represented, including Frederic Church, Thomas Cole, Albert Bierstadt, Winslow Homer, and William Merritt Chase. Australian artists include Joseph Lyatt, Augustus Earle, John Glover, Eugene von Guerard, Louis Buvelot, and Arthur Streeton, among others.

New Worlds from Old: 19th Century Australian & American Landscapes

Sayers, Andrew

Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin

Ellis, Amy

Johns, Elizabeth

National Gallery of Australia

History & Criticism

Thames&Hudson

American Drawings and Watercolors from the Wadsworth Atheneum

Beautiful album of colorplates from great Connecticut collection: Homer, Sargent, Hopper, more.

BARTER, Judith A.

American Federation of Arts

Hudson Hills Pr

Folio highly pictorial survey of the Morgan collection of European decorative arts.

J. Pierpont Morgan, Collector

Biographies & Memoirs

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