Securing the shadow

Description:

"[This book] is the first museum exhibition dedicated to an examination of American self-taught portraiture of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through the lends of memory and loss." -- Front inside flap.

subjects: Death in art,  Exhibitions,  Sepulchral monuments,  American Portrait painting,  Themes, motives,  Portrait photography,  Funeral rites and ceremonies in art,  Death,  History,  Social aspects

Places: United States

Times: 18th century,  19th century