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conversation piece: a standalone construct

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Art history

a small informal group portrait showing family or friends engaged together in a domestic or leisure setting.

In art history, conversation piece refers to a small informal group portrait showing family or friends engaged together in a domestic or leisure setting. This meaning comes from Praz (1971) in Conversation pieces: a survey of the informal group portrait in Europe and America.[1]

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family3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs group4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs leisure1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct

References

Praz, M. (1971). Conversation pieces: a survey of the informal group portrait in Europe and America. Methuen. ISBN 9780271001326

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