**艺术史学家John Wilmerding对美国艺术作品中最有名的包含眼镜的肖像画，以及眼镜对艺术家——从Grant Wood 到Alex Katz——的意义的一次深思。

本书通过从18世纪末到现在的油画、版画、民间艺术、雕塑和摄影来探讨和诠释美国艺术作品中的眼镜。本书包含Mary Cassatt和Alice Neel等**艺术家的八十幅作品，是在佛蒙特州的谢尔本博物馆（Shelburne Museum）举办的一场展览的配套出版物。

A reflection of American art's most iconic portraits that feature eyeglasses, and their significance to the artists--from Grant Wood to Alex Katz--through the lens of renowned art historian John Wilmerding.

This book celebrates and interprets eyeglasses in American art through painting, prints, folk art, sculpture, and photography from the end of the eighteenth century to the present. Accompanying an exhibition at the Shelburne Museum in Vermont, the book includes eighty works by illustrious artists such as Mary Cassatt and Alice Neel.

Though we know eyeglasses are for looking through, we often overlook their role in portraits and figure images. This survey looks at their appearance and uses in American art, from 1784 when Benjamin Franklin invented the bifocal, to the present day. Spectacles in artwork served as emblems of literacy, fashion, and self-identity; old age and wisdom; inner or psychological vision; and sometimes just contemplation. Contemporary works include bespectacled self-portraits by Chuck Close, Andy Warhol, and Keith Haring; and eyeglasses as pure design by Alex Katz and Wayne Thiebaud.