Portraits

Compares significant portraits since the Renaissance with the present work of painters Philip Pearlstein and Yolanda Sonnabend and photographers Joel Meyerowitz and Jo Spence. Studies the impact of photography on portraiture and examines the kinds of stereotyping that have developed and then been challenged. Closed Captioned.

More in Painter's World Series

  1. The Artist and the Nude 1985
  2. The Training of Painters 1987
  3. Abstraction 1988
  4. Painting and the Public: Patronage, Museums and the Art Market 1988
  5. Portraits 1988
  6. The Arrested Movement 1988

Related films

Sources

  1. 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, creator, length, format, color, description, catalog record