Postmodern Portraiture from the Logan Collection
Exhibition catalogue for the Logan Collection Vail
Essays by Kent Logan and Dean Sobel
From Kent Logan’s essay:
It was the artists of the 1980s that began to aggressively use the portrait to explore issues of psychological identity. While approaching this subject differently, artists as diverse as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jeff Koons, David Wojnarowicz, Marlene Dumas, and Antony Gormley all explored this genre extensively.
From Dean Sobel’s essay:
While the Logan Collection, by the collectors’ own admission, is centered primarily on what could be considered representational art, the preponderance of works within the collection that could be considered portraits is still noteworthy. Portraiture, it seems, has become the subject for artists of our time, much as certain subjects were the dominant format for other avant-garde milieus, such as landscape for Impressionism and still-life for Cubism.
320 pages
8 x 11 inches
