This Is a Portrait if I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today Biography of young lovers struck down

of young lovers struck down in their prime

The book accompanies the exhibition

and Kathleen Merrill Campagnolo

co-director of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art

many of them breaking box office records and generating broad public discourse

This Is a Portrait if I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today Biography of young lovers struck downAnne Collins Goodyear, Jonathan Frederick Walz, and Kathleen Merrill Campagnolo, with a contribution by Dorinda Evans The sumptuously illustrated catalogue explores portraiture as a site of artistic experimentation, in works that shift the genre from one based on mimesis to one stressing symbolic associations between artists and subjects. Featuring over 100 color illustrations this publication probes the way we think about and picture the self and