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Between the invention of photography in 1839 and the end of the 19th century, portraiture became one of the most popular and common art forms in the United States. In 'The Portrait's Subject', Sarah Blackwood tells a wide-ranging story about how images of human surfaces came to signal expressions of human depth during this era in paintings, photographs, and illustrations, as well as in literary and cultural representations of portrait making and viewing. Combining visual theory, literary close reading, and archival research, Blackwood examines portraiture's changing symbolic and aesthetic practices, from daguerreotype to X-ray.

Psychology and art. --- Identity (Psychology) in literature. --- Identity (Psychology) in art. --- Portraits, American. --- American portraits --- Art and psychology --- Art