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Changing Perceptions
Milestones in Twentieth-Century British Portraiture

Elizabeth Cayzer
Elizabeth Cayzer has worked in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum, in commercial art galleries and as a private art dealer.

This book examines the extraordinary metamorphosis that has occurred in the presentation of the human face during the twentieth century. A series of essays charts the portraits which are the “Milestones” to that change, while the discussion that follows – “Changing Perceptions” – endeavours to identify its nature, its causes, and to show the manner in which the artists reveal this transformation when painting their sitters.

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“A well documented study of a number of key portraits of the century in which she weaves together the lives of representative artists and sitters into an effective narrative of twentieth-century portraiture as an art form.” Charles Saumarez Smith, Director, National Portrait Gallery

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