TY - BOOK ID - 77879993 TI - Portraits and persons: a philosophical inquiry PY - 2010 SN - 1282939173 9786612939174 0191576182 9780191576188 9780199234981 0199234981 0191613657 9780191613654 PB - Oxford Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Portraits KW - Portrait painting KW - Portrait drawing KW - Aesthetics. KW - Beautiful, The KW - Beauty KW - Esthetics KW - Taste (Aesthetics) KW - Philosophy KW - Art KW - Criticism KW - Literature KW - Proportion KW - Symmetry KW - Portraiture KW - Drawing KW - Painting KW - Figure painting KW - Biography KW - Pictures KW - Philosophy. KW - Psychology KW - Aesthetics KW - Aesthetics of art KW - Radio broadcasting Aesthetics UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77879993 AB - Portraits have for centuries been one of the most important art forms. But what do portraits tell us? What do they mean? And what makes a picture into a portrait?In this book, leading art philosopher Cynthia Freeland addresses these questions and more. As she shows, portraits have served two fundamental functions throughout the ages. Firstly, they preserve identity, bringing us closer to loved ones who are either absent or dead. And secondly, they tell us something about the subject being portrayed: not just external things such as what they are wearing, but also about the subject's emotions a ER -