Hung Liu : portraits of promised lands / Dorothy Moss ; with Nancy Lim, Lucy R. Lippard, Elizabeth Partridge, and Philip Tinari.

"'Hung Liu : Portraits of Promised Lands' presents the multilayered work of this contemporary Chinese American artist, whose paintings have established new frameworks for understanding portraiture in relation to time, memory, and history. Often sourcing her subjects from photographs, Liu (b. 1948) e...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moss, Dorothy, 1952- (Author)
Corporate Author: National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution) (Host institution, Publisher)
Other Authors: Liu, Hung, 1948-2021 (Artist)
Lim, Nancy (Curatorial assistant) (Writer of supplementary textual content)
Lippard, Lucy R. (Contributor)
Partridge, Elizabeth (Contributor)
Tinari, Philip (Contributor)
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : New Haven, CT : National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution ; in association with Yale University Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Liu, Hung, > 1948-2021 > Exhibitions.
Liu, Hung, > 1948-2021.
Painting, Chinese > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Painting, Chinese > 21st century > Exhibitions.
Portrait painting, Chinese > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Portrait painting, Chinese > 21st century > Exhibitions.
Chinese in art > Exhibitions.
Painting from photographs > Exhibitions.
Chinese American artists > Exhibitions.
Women artists > United States > Exhibitions.
Peinture chinoise > 20e siècle > Expositions.
Peinture de portraits chinoise > 20e siècle > Expositions.
Peinture de portraits chinoise > 21e siècle > Expositions.
Peinture d'après photographies > Expositions.
Artistes américains d'origine chinoise > Expositions.
Femmes artistes > États-Unis > Expositions.
Portrait painting, Chinese.
Chinese American artists.
Painting, Chinese.
2000-2099
Exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.
Genre:
Exhibitions.
Expositions.
Exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.
Physical Description:217 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color portraits ; 29 cm
Variant Title:
Portraits of promised lands
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Donors
  • Director's Foreword / Kim Sajet
  • Interface : Hung Liu's family portraits and their afterlives / Dorothy Moss
  • Picturing the cultural revolution : Hung Liu's early work / Nancy Lim
  • Plates : Part I
  • Hung Liu : China trade / Lucy R. Lippard
  • Deeply familiar : Hung Liu and Dorothea Lange / Elizabeth Partridge
  • Hung Liu : Passer-by / Philip Tinari
  • Plates : Part II
  • Artists reflections
  • Enrique Chagoya
  • Judy Chicago
  • Mel Chin
  • Yu Hong
  • Martin Mull
  • Amy Sherald
  • Stephanie Syjuco
  • Lava Thomas
  • Carrie Mae Weems
  • Liu Xiaodong
  • Chronology / Jeff Kelley
  • Selected references
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index
  • Illustration credits.