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Hip Hop and Contemporary Portraiture
by Brandon Brame Fortune, Frank H. Goodyear III, and Jobyl A. Boone (National Portrait Gallery), softcover, 11 x 8 ½ in.; 32 pp., $10.00
Images of hip hop performers are as pervasive in our culture as the music itself. This full-color booklet highlights the six artists and one poet—Kehinde Wiley, David Scheinbaum, Jefferson Pinder, Tim Conlon, Dave Hupp, Shinique Smith, and Nikki Giovanni—who appear in the exhibition and captures the vibrancy and energy that characterizes hip hop.
This catalogue is available in the Museum Shop
Legacy: Spain and the United States in the Age of Independence, 1763-1848
by Carolyn Kinder Carr et al. (National Portrait Gallery, Sociedad Estatal para la Acción Cultural Exterior de España, Smithsonian Latino Center, and Fundación Consejo España–Estados Unidos), hardcover, 9 ¾ x 13 1/4 in.; 284 pp. $55.99
Legacy highlights the relationship between Spain and the United States over an eight-five year period that was marked by transformative events in the Americas and Europe. This bilingual volume, containing twelve illustrated essays by noted scholars in the field, also contains seventy-two full-color illustrations of the objects in the exhibition—portraits, maps, documents, and treaties—that focus on moments of significant political and economic intersection between Spain and the United States.
This book is available in the Museum Shop
Faces of Discord
The Civil War Era at the National Portrait Gallery
edited by James G. Barber, (Collins Reference), hardcover, 9 x
11 in.; 320 pp., $34.95
Compiled primarily from NPG’s collections, these
portraits of the leading historical figures of this turbulent and transformative time include many of the best and most accurate representations of such legendary figures as Abraham Lincoln, Robert E.
Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, John S. Mosby, and George Armstrong Custer, and were painted, sculpted, and photographed by the foremost artists
of the day.
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The Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2006
With an essay by Dave Hickey, (distributed
by University of Washington Press), softcover, 5 x 8 ½ in., 80 pp., $19.95
Selected by a jury of experts from more than 4,000 initial entries to
the country’s fi rst national portrait competition, the fifty-one finalists’
portraits provide clear evidence of the strength of portraiture
in today’s world, and signal NPG’s increased commitment to contemporary
art.
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Portrait of a Nation
Highlights from the National Portrait Gallery,
Smithsonian Institution
(Merrell), softcover, 5 1/2 x 7 ½ in. 288 pp., $14.95
This beautifully illustrated,
compact companion guide to the reopened NPG brings
together the faces of Americans who have made a profound mark
on the history of the United States, from the nation’s earliest days
to the present, including political leaders and reformers, artists and
athletes, superstars and scoundrels.
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Portraiture Now
(National Portrait Gallery), softcover, 6 x 9 in., 28 pp., $7.95
This inaugural installation in a new exhibition series provides a cross-section
of current innovations in portraiture, and features the work of
five contemporary portrait artists: William Beckman, Dawoud Bey,
Nina Levy, Jason Salavon, and Andres Serrano.
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Temple of Invention:
History of a National Landmark
by Charles
J. Robertson (Smithsonian American Art Museum & National Portrait
Gallery, in association with Scala Publishers), softcover, 9 x 8
¾ in., 112 pp., $19.95
Robertson tells the history of our National Historic
Landmark building, beginning with its construction as home of the
U.S. Patent Office, its conversion to Civil War barracks and use as
the site of Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural ball, through the
Smithsonian’s acquisition of the building and its grand reopening
in 2006.
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