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Towards a Sociology of the Portrait
Towards a Sociology of the Portrait

Author(s): Peter Burke
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Review, Sociology, Sociology of Culture, Sociology of the arts, business, education, Sociology of Art
Published by: Budapesti Könyvszemle Alapítvány

Summary/Abstract: Books by: Enikő Buzási, Lome Campbell, H.P. Chapman, Audrey Spiro and Richard Vinograd. Enikő Buzási: Régi Magyar Arcképek—Alté Ungarische Bildnisse (Old Hungarian Portraits) Tatavár—Szombathely, 1988, VIII + 111 pp. Lome Campbell: Renaissance Portraits: European Portrait-Painting in the Fourteenth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1990, XIII + 289 pp. H. Perry Chapman: Rembrandt’s Self-Portraits: a Study in Seventeenth-Century Identity; Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1990, XIX + 189 pp. Audrey Spiro: Contemplating the Ancients: Aesthetic and Social Issues in Early Chinese Portraiture Berkeley, Los Angeles and Oxford, University of California Press, 1990, XV + 259 pp. Richard Vinograd: Boundaries of the Self: Chinese Portraits, 1600-1900 Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992, XV + 191 pp.

  • Issue Year: 2/1992
  • Issue No: 04
  • Page Range: 156-158
  • Page Count: 3
  • Language: English