The
portrait collection of the New York Chamber of Commerce depicts
two-hundred-year of giants of the American business.
I read
that the representations of those leaders and leading members engaged the
dilemma of portraying power in a democracy, which should be based on egalitarianism
and therefore is in fundamental conflict with the idea of commissioning, posing
for, and collecting portraits.
Besides, this predicament is said to be emblematic
of the 'continuing contests in American life between self-interest and the
greater good, and equality and the social hierarchies that wealth engenders'.
Does it actually exist such a contest?
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| The Atlantic Cable Projectors by D. Huntington |
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