In These Portraits, a Challenge to Labels of ‘Sitter’ and ‘Artist’ - NYTimes.com

In These Portraits, a Challenge to Labels of ‘Sitter’ and ‘Artist’ - NYTimes.com: "Portraiture itself is an ancient, and often rather conservative, practice. Oxford Art Online, a widely accepted academic source, cites a 1974 British Museum catalog that defines a portrait as an image “in which the artist is engaged with the personality of his sitter and is preoccupied with his or her characterization as an individual.” Putting aside the old-school gender designation of artists as men, the artists at the Aldrich challenge most of these assertions. In this group of projects, the “sitter,” the “individual,” the “personality” and even the “artist” are contested labels"