Hanging the Head

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Hanging the Head is written by Marcia R. Pointon and published by Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0300057385 (ISBN 10) and 9780300057386 (ISBN 13).

This handsomely illustrated book discusses portraiture as a cultural and political phenomenon in eighteenth-century England. Marcia Pointon offers detailed historical analyses of portraits by Gainsborough, Reynolds, Hogarth, and others, showing how portraiture of the period provided mechanisms for constructing and accessing a national past and for controlling a present that appeared increasingly unruly.