Jo's mo show (with beards)
Any survey of the National Portrait Gallery's collection reveals numerous variations in facial hair fashions.
Art Exhibition
previously on
at
National Portrait Gallery
in
Other Metro Canberra
precinct,
Australian Capital Territory,
Australia.
From
Friday 28 October 2011 to Sunday 01 April 2012
Published by anonymous on Monday 10 October 2011.
Contact the publisher.
From the be-wigged and clean-shaven gents of the eighteenth century to the 70s blokes brandishing handlebar mos, portraits and the individuals depicted in them show also that such styles are more than mere whim; and that men’s choices to sport facial hair have usually been closely connected to shifts in ideas about politics, society, identity or masculinity. Jo’s mo show (with beards) will illustrate changes in beards, moustaches and sideburns from the 1780s to the 1980s.
