This is A Portrait If I Say So

Lecture presented by Anne Goodyear, co-director of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, and co-author of This is A Portrait if I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today. Goodyear will discuss how portraiture evolved largely as a genre based on mimesis to one stressing conceptual and symbolic associations between artist and subject. Artists considered range from Georgia O’Keeffe and Marcel Duchamp to Jasper Johns and Yoko Ono. Cosponsored by the Middlebury College Museum of Art, the Department of History of Art and Architecture, and the Director of the Arts. Free