Human figures depicted in the arts Books
University of California Press Radical Bodies
Book SynopsisDance was a fundamental part of the art world in the 1960s, the most volatile decade in American art, offering a radical image of bodily presence in a moment of revolutionary change. Halprin, Forti, and Rainer - all with Jewish roots - found themselves at the epicenter of this upheaval. This book tells their stories.Trade Review"...[an] attractive, large-format volume [that] gives props to 96-year-old Anna Halprin." * The Village Voice *"Through photos, objects and rare footage [featured in the book], the experiments on Ms. Halprin's deck are revealed to be crucial to the Judson revolution and so much that has happened since in New York postmodern dance." * New York Times *"The book significantly revisit[s] the body of the sixties as a living and breathing resource of inspiration, complexity, and revolution." * The Woman's Art Journal *"More than an exhibition catalogue, the text, populated by images of the exhibit’s artifacts, offers an absorptive record that celebrates Halprin, Forti, and Rainer’s historical oeuvres. While maintaining a critical, discursive perspective, especially in the three grounding essays by the book’s editors, the text additionally weaves together artist writings, critical reflection, and personal anecdotes by Forti, John Rockwell, and Morton Subotnick. These supplementary pieces invite the voices of the artist, critic, and collaborator, respectively, giving the book a diverse stylistic ethos that performatively addresses the intangible aspects of its subjects: the body, performance, and time-based materials." * The Drama Review *"This catalog brings new insights into the essential and world-changing new ideas on art making that these three women ignited and nurtured and continue to do so—all three remain active in the dance world." * Journal of Dance Education *"The book is punctuated with visuals: performance photos, film stills, rehearsal notes, manuscripts, drawings, and improvisational scores. The visual organization asks its reader to engage with Halprin, Forti, and Rainer’s radical bodies through images of them in motion and written representations of their work." * PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art *"This catalog brings new insights into the essential and world-changing new ideas on art making that these three women ignited and nurtured and continue to do so—all three remain active in the dance world." * Journal of Dance Education *"Radical Bodies and Judson Dance Theater raise a final relevant to intellectual history: how do we consider the ephemerality of the past? . . . The historical essays as well as the photographs, notebook pages, scores, and other archival sources richly documented in the book mean that while we can’t go back again to the dancing bodies themselves, we can still activate the meanings left in their wake." * Society for US Intellectual History *
£55.32
British Museum Press The Greek Body
Book SynopsisThe ancient Greeks perceived the human body as an object of sensory delight and its depiction as the expression of an intelligent mind. This sumptuous photographic book explores ancient Greek sculptures of the body from every angle.
£17.99
Taschen GmbH Schiele
Book SynopsisWith his graphic style, figural distortion, and defiance of conventional standards of beauty, Egon Schiele (1890–1918) was a pioneer of Austrian Expressionism and one of the most startling portrait painters of the 20th century. Mentored by Gustav Klimt, Schiele dabbled in a glittering Art Nouveau style before developing his own much more gritty and confrontational aesthetic of sharp lines, lurid shades, and mannered, elongated figures. His prolific portraits and self-portraits stunned the Viennese establishment with an unprecedented psychological and sexual intensity, favoring erotic, exposing, or unsettling poses in which he or his sitters cower on the floor, languish with legs akimbo, glower at the viewer, and thrust their genitalia into the foreground. His models are at times skeletal and sickly, at other times strong and sensual. Many contemporaries found Schiele’s work to be not only ugly but morally objectionable; in 1912, the artist was briefly imprisoned for obscenity. Today, his oeuvre is celebrated for its revolutionary approach to the human figure and for its direct and particularly fervent, almost furious brand of draftsmanship. This book presents key Schiele works to introduce his short but urgent career and his profound contribution to the development of modern art, which reaches right through to such contemporary talents as Tracey Emin and Jenny Saville.
£13.50
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Modelling and Sculpting the Figure
Book SynopsisAn essential guide to the creative process for sculpting the figure. The human figure in sculpture is a powerful form, capable of great expression and depth. Sculpting the figure in any medium is a rewarding practice, but one that can lead to some challenges. Tanya Russell, founder and principal of the Art Academy in London, details the whole creative process for sculpting the figure, from the fundamental conceptual and practical considerations through to the finished and presented work. She covers essential tools and equipment, methods for building armatures, and the processes for creating not only realistic, but also abstract and expressive figures, in a variety of styles and materials. Techniques are supported by practical exercises with step-by-step instructions and images. The book is filled with the inspiring works of contemporary sculptors, all of whom are tutors, students, or alumni of the Art Academy. Modelling and Sculpting the Figure is an essential companion for beginners and established artists alike.Trade ReviewBeautifully presented in a fairly simple format with clear and simple language. There are plenty of both colour and black and white images which are quite inspirational is themselves...This book is helpful in its focus on some universal artistic principles and approaches to sculpting the human figure. -- Mary Cousins * South Wales Potters Newsletter *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: The Language of Art Chapter 2: Getting Started Chapter 3: Armatures Chapter 4: The Realistic Figure Chapter 5: The Abstracted Figure Chapter 6: The Expressive Figure Chapter 7: Finishing Suppliers Acknowledgements Bibliography Index
£19.54
Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc Art Studio: Faces & Features: More than 50
Book SynopsisArt Studio: Faces & Features introduces beginning artists and art enthusiasts to the art of drawing and painting heads, faces, and expressions using a variety of mediums. Drawing and painting heads, faces, and expressions can be an intimidating prospect for a beginning artist. Art Studio: Faces & Features is here to help, with more than 50 tips, techniques, and step-by-step projects that will have you creating expressive faces and mastering textures in all your drawings. This intuitive guide shows you how to work with graphite and colored pencils; acrylic, oil, and watercolor paints; pastels; and even pen and ink. This range of mediums is the perfect way to experiment, build artistic confidence, and define your own unique style. Art Studio: Faces & Features makes the art of drawing expressions possible for beginning fine artists. The Art Studio series is designed to help beginning artists venture into fine art; an overview of each art medium helps them determine which they like best.
£11.69
Yale University Press Van Gogh and Music
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Through ten illustrated chapters, Natascha Veldhorst presents a compelling argument that music is inextricably linked to Van Gogh’s work.”—Claire Jackson, BBC Music Magazine“Veldhorst has quite convincingly and eloquently established that the role of music must be reckoned with as an essential component of [Van Gogh’s] art.”—Peter L. Schmunk, Music in Art“The author proceeds to form a convincing argument that music was integral to both the artist’s life and work.”—Christian House, Art Newspaper
£26.12
Getty Trust Publications Medicine in Art
Book SynopsisThis is the latest volume in the acclaimed series that depicts medicine as depicted in art throughout history. This sumptuously illustrated volume offers a visual history of the depiction of illness and healing in Western culture, ranging from Egyptian wall carvings to medieval manuscripts and from paintings and sculpture by the great masters of the Renaissance to 20thC artists such as Matisse & Magritte. Thematic chapters cover the examination of patients and their maladies; healing and medical treatments; and the sufferings and hopes of patients awaiting cure and recovery. Psychological anguish, represented by Masaccio's "The Expulsion of Adam and Eve", and Munch's "The Scream", are also treated along with more obvious physical manifestations.Trade Review-A visual delight. . . . Get hold of a copy of Medicine in Art and look, learn, and enjoy.---Journal of the American Medical Association "A visual delight. . . . Get hold of a copy of Medicine in Art and look, learn, and enjoy."--Journal of the American Medical Association A visual delight. . . . Get hold of a copy of Medicine in Art and look, learn, and enjoy. Journal of the American Medical Association " A visual delight. . . . Get hold of a copy of "Medicine in Art "and look, learn, and enjoy. "Journal of the American Medical Association" """ "A visual delight. . . . Get hold of a copy of "Medicine in Art "and look, learn, and enjoy."--"Journal of the American Medical Association" ""
£20.89
Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale Draw People Every Day
Book SynopsisCommercial illustrator Kagan McLeod offers an approach to figure and portrait drawing by breaking figure and portrait drawing into the three major aspects of line, tone and colour.
£14.99
Watson-Guptill Publications Classic Human Anatomy in Motion
Book SynopsisClassic Human Anatomy in Motion offers artists everything they need to realistically draw the human figure as it is affected by movement. Written in a friendly style, the book is illustrated with hundreds of life drawing studies, along with charts and diagrams showing the various anatomical and structural components.
£26.25
McGill-Queen's University Press Art Medicine and Femininity Visualising the
Book SynopsisRampant morphine addiction in Third Republic France captured the imagination of artists in Paris. However, while the majority morphine users were male medical professionals, artists almost always pictured a female addict. Art, Medicine, and Femininity explores the societal impact of the feminization of addiction in this corpus of images.Trade Review‘Hannah Halliwell makes a persuasive and ultimately convincing argument for the pathologising and feminisation of addiction through a compelling analysis of understudied works of art. I very much enjoyed reading this book.’ Kelly Ricciardi Colvin, University of Massachusetts, Boston and author of Charm Offensive: Commodifying Femininity in Postwar France
£70.00
Get Creative 6 Drawing People: The Quick and Easy Way to Draw
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£14.99
Rocky Nook The Art and Science of Figure Drawing: Learn to
Book SynopsisThe human figure is the most rewarding but the most challenging subject to draw.In this book, award-winning drawing instructor Brent Eviston demystifies the process and teaches practical skills that anyone can learn. Starting with simple shapes, the reader will then learn how to accurately draw a figure in three dimensions and depict flesh, muscle, and bone as well as how to shade using dramatic light and shadow.This practical guide will teach you the most accessible and effective methods for drawing the figure. Filled with beautiful and instructive drawings of every phase of the figure drawing process, this book builds upon Brent’s popular approach to teaching pioneered in his popular Art and Science of Drawing book and courses.
£22.50
Oxford University Press How To Draw Anatomy
Book SynopsisHow To Draw Anatomy offers a practical, step-by-step guide to drawing anatomical diagrams. Providing an overview of the gross anatomy of each organ system, this handy guide teaches you how to draw, learn, and retain anatomy that is both anatomically correct and easy to replicate. Offering a solid foundation in anatomical knowledge, these simple and concise diagrams can be easily replicated under pressure - be it in an exam or in a patient consultation.Table of Contents1: Cardiovascular System 2: Respiratory System 3: Upper Gastrointestinal System 4: Lower Gastrointestinal System 5: Hepatobiliary System 6: Neurology 7: Genito-urinary 8: Musculoskeletal 9: Ophthalmology 10: Miscellaneous 11: GI Tract 12: Renal 13: Hepatology 14: Musculoskeletal 15: Respiratory System 16: Skin 17: Ophthalmology 18: Miscellaneous
£28.49
SCHNOFF Girl With Two Fingers
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£13.50
Hirmer Verlag Florine Stettheimer
Book Synopsis“I was thrilled”, was Andy Warhol’s enthusiastic reaction to the pictures of Florine Stettheimer (1871–1944). Many of the elements of her work inspired his Pop Art. During Stettheimer’s life her sensuous and ironic paintings with their numerous figures were valued highly by artists and curators, although the general public remained largely unaware of their merits. Only after her death did her close friend Marcel Duchamp organise a retrospective in the Museum of Modern Art. The art and literature scene of Roaring Twenties New York gathered at Florine Stettheimer’s extravagant parties. Surrounded by the cultivated and yet unconventional “Dada flair”, the artist staged her pictures as a performance – and was thereby well ahead of her time. As an outstanding painter she was not only at the heart of the American art business, but also attracted attention with her eccentric, subversive and often humorous poems, as well as demonstrating her talent as a stage and costume designer in the theatre. This bibliophile monograph about the multitalented artist is lavishly illustrated and tells a new, exciting history of the modern age through her artworks.Trade Review“Three decades after the publication of her dissertation, Bloemink is again making the case for Stettheimer as a fascinating, and crucial, figure of art history, one deserving a place in the pantheon of American modernists.” * Vogue *“In her thrilling new book Florine Stettheimer: A Biography (Hirmer), art historian Barbara Bloemink persuasively argues that, with this painting, Stettheimer was trying to find a visual way of communicating her élan...Truer words may never have been written about Stettheimer." * ArtNews *
£9.45
Distributed Art Publishers Modern Mystic: The Art of Hyman Bloom
Book Synopsis“Hyman is awesomely consistent, brilliant, ascetic—more and more people say he is the best painter in America, and so he is.” –Robert Lowell This important publication, the first of its kind, presents the paintings and drawings of an aesthetic and mystical searcher in the tradition of William Blake, Albert Pinkham Ryder and Odilon Redon, who strove for the moment when, in his own words, “the mood is as intense as it can be made.” Hyman Bloom’s work, influenced by his Jewish heritage (whose impression on his painting he described as a “weeping of the heart”) and Eastern religions, touches on many of the themes of 20th-century culture and art: the body, its immanence and transience, abstraction and spiritual mysticism. Bloom was admired by leading figures in the art world of his time, including Alfred H. Barr Jr. and Dorothy Miller; Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning hailed him as “the first Abstract Expressionist.” The poet Robert Lowell praised Bloom, writing in a letter to Elizabeth Bishop, “Hyman is awesomely consistent, brilliant, ascetic—more and more people say he is the best painter in America, and so he is.” The book’s illustrations include ten previously unpublished masterworks, plus images of the figure as powerful and provocative as the paintings by Francis Bacon that were once exhibited alongside them. Hyman Bloom (1913–2009) was born in Lithuania, now Latvia. He and his family immigrated to the United States in 1920, escaping anti-Semitic persecution. He lived and worked in the Boston area until his death. His work is held in many public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Whitney Museum of American Art and others.Trade ReviewAlong with the MFA show and Modern Mystic, an exhibition of his paintings... confirms the continuing power of his themes: the vulnerability of flesh, the exploration of the spiritual through art, and the conviction that change is the essence of reality. -- Eleanor Heartney * Art in America *Hyman Bloom, the forgotten modernist who de Kooning once called ‘the First Abstract Expressionist,’ is having a comeback. -- Sarah Cascone * Artnet *Hyman Bloom: The Best Abstract Expressionist You Never Heard Of * Artspace *Mystical... distinctly unsettling. * Paris Review *
£36.00
Orion Publishing Co Read This if You Want to be Great at Drawing
Book SynopsisLearn to draw figures and faces with this clear and easy to follow guide, the latest in the bestselling 'Read This' series. Revealing the techniques and ideas behind inspirational works, the book will set you on the path to making your own great drawings. From traditional life drawing to unconventional character studies, works by masters such as Henri Matisse, Auguste Rodin and Vincent van Gogh, as well as contemporary artists including Marlene Dumas, Zin Lim and Catherine Kehoe, all serve to illustrate a range of approaches and encourage readers to try out new ideas. Read This if You Want to Be Great at Drawing People is part of the internationally-bestselling ‘Read This’ series, which has sold over half-a-million books worldwide and has been translated into over 20 languages. More titles in the ‘Read This’ series: Read This if You Want to Take Great Photographs by Henry Carroll (9781780673356) Read This if You Want to Take Great Photographs of People by Henry Carroll (9781780676241) Read This if You Want to Take Great Photographs of Places by Henry Carroll (9781780679051) Use This if You Want to Take Great Photographs: A Photo Journal by Henry Carroll (9781780678887) Read This if You Want to Be Great at Drawing by Selwyn Leamy (9781786270542) Use This if You Want to Be Great at Drawing by Selwyn Leamy (9781786274052) Read This if You Want to Be a Great Writer by Ross Raisin (9781786271976) Read This if You Want to Be Instagram Famous edited by Henry Carroll (9781780679679)
£11.69
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art The Classical Body in Romantic Britain
Book SynopsisA radical, lively departure from received notions about art of the Romantic period For many, the term “neoclassicism” has come to imply discipline, order, restraint, and a certain myopia. Leaving the term behind, this book radically challenges enduring assumptions about the art produced from the late 18th century to the early Victorian period, casting new light on appropriations of the classical body by British artists. It is the first to foreground the intersections of gender, race, and class in discussions of British visual classicism, laying bare artists’ alternately politicizing and emphatically sensual engagements with Greco-Roman art. Rather than rely exclusively on subsequent scholarship, the book takes up the poet John Keats (1795–1821) as a theoretical framework. Eschewing the “Golden Age” narrative, which sees J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851) as the pinnacle of the period’s artistic achievement, the book examines overlooked artists, such as Henry Howard (1769–1847) and John Graham Lough (1798–1876). The result is a fresh account of underappreciated works of British painting and sculpture.Distributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British ArtTrade Review“Cora Gilroy-Ware mounts a refreshing, combative argument for the radical links of white marble statuary.”—Marina Warner, Times Literary Supplement 'Books of the Year'
£36.00
The University of Chicago Press Rembrandts Jews
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£20.00
The University of Chicago Press Modern Art and the Remaking of Human Disposition
Book SynopsisHow artists at the turn of the twentieth century broke with traditional ways of posing the bodies of human figures to reflect modern understandings of human consciousness. Trade Review"Butterfield-Rosen's strategy of examining the disposition of poses in order to contribute to histories of the self is nothing short of a brilliant, and her discussion of the trafficking between abstract concepts and concrete practices is rigorous, original, and convincing. This is an area in which the discipline of art history is in a privileged position to contribute to a broader history of ideas, and she makes skillful use of the weapons in an art historian's arsenal, including formal and iconographic analysis." --Zeynep Celik Alexander, author of Kinaesthetic Knowing: Aesthetics, Epistemology, Modern Design "Modern Art and the Remaking of Human Disposition is original, creative, erudite, soundly argued, and convincingly substantiated. It constitutes an important intervention in the history of late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century European art, offering a subtle linkage between aesthetic theory and socio-psychological conceptions of selfhood."--Juliet Bellow, author of Modernism on Stage: The Ballets Russes and the Parisian Avant-GardeTable of ContentsIntroduction One Figures of Thought: Poseuses and the Controversy of the Grande Jatte Two Beethoven’s Farewell: The Creative Genius “in the Claws of the Secession” Three The Mise-en-scène of Dreams: L’Après-midi d’un faune Acknowledgments Notes Index
£43.20
Columbia University Press The Body Adorned Dissolving Boundaries between
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAn important work for anyone interested in Indian art or religion... Highly recommended. ChoiceTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgments 1. The Body as Leitmotif 2. The Idealized Body and Ornament 3. The Sensuous Within Sacred Boundaries 4. To the Divine Through Beauty 5. Inserting the Gods in the World of Men: Rajput Painted Manuscripts Afterword. The Body Revealed and Concealed: Issues of Intention and Perception Notes Bibliography Index
£49.60
Yale University Press Kings Queens and Courtiers
Book SynopsisProvides an overview of French art circa 1500, a dynamic, transitional period when the country, resurgent after the dislocations of the Hundred Years' War, invaded Italy and all media flourished.Trade Review"American readers are well served by the more compact, beautifully illustrated English version. Recommended."—W. Cahn, Choice -- W. Cahn * Choice *
£38.00
Yale University Press Maternity
Book SynopsisOn the African continent, images of mothers and children are found wherever the visual arts are, from early rock-art sites in Egypt and the Sahara to the contemporary arts of South Africa. Discoveredin a variety of materials, from stone, ivory, and metals to beadwork, wood, and even paintings, images of maternity enlivenvirtually every type of object made in the region. Defining maternity as a biological and cultural phenomenon, the author goes beyond obvious notions of fertility to consider the importance of maternity in thought, ritual action, and worldview. Maternity images of all eras evoke deep and significant messages well beyond what meets the eye.Distributed for Mercatorfonds
£63.00
Yale University Press Seen from Behind
Book SynopsisRenaissance bodies, dressed and undressed, have not lacked attention in art historical literature, but scholarship on the male body has generally concentrated on phallic-oriented masculinity and been connected to issues of patriarchy and power. This original book examines the range of meaning that has been attached to the male backside in Renaissance art and culture, the transformation of the base connotation of the image to high art, and the question of homoerotic impulses or implications of admiring male figures from behind. Representations of the male body's behind have often been associated with things obscene, carnivalesque, comical, or villainous. Presenting serious scholarship with a deft hand, Seen from Behind expands our understanding of the motif of the male buttocks in Renaissance art, revealing both continuities and changes in the ways the images convey meaning and have been given meaning. Trade Review“Rubin’s writing is super fruity” — James Hall, The Art Newspaper“Rubin offers many valuable insights on what Lucian Freud called the 'emotional vocabulary' of the naked body and the resonance and recurrence of postures: hands on hips, legs astride or prone with the buttocks raised [. . .] She has opened up a wonderful subject” —Alan Hollinghurst, Literary Review“Although the text is remarkably playful [. . .], its rhetorical lightness is paired with substantial argument” —Sarah Betzer Burlington Magazine
£49.50
Yale University Press William Hunter and the Anatomy of the Modern
Book SynopsisWilliam Hunter and the Anatomy of the Modern Museum accompanies a groundbreaking exhibition organized by the Hunterian at the University of Glasgow, in collaboration with the Yale Center for British Art, to celebrate the 2018 tercentenary of The Hunterian's founder, Dr. William Hunter (17181783). This publication is the first in 150 years to assess the contribution made by Hunter, the Scottish-born obstetrician, anatomist, and collector, to the development of the modern museum as a public institution. Essays examine how Hunter gathered his collection to be used as a source of knowledge and instruction, encompassing outstanding paintings and works on paper, coins and medals, and anatomical and zoological specimens. Hunter also possessed ethnographic artifacts from Spain, the Middle East, China, and the South Pacific, and was an avid collector of medieval manuscripts and incunabula; these were all located within one of the most important working libraries of eighteenth-century London. Published by the Yale Center for British Art in association with The HunterianExhibition Schedule:The Hunterian, Glasgow (09/28/1801/06/19)Yale Center for British Art (02/14/1905/20/19)Trade Review“There is, as the exhibition and [this] scholarly catalog demonstrate, a thread running through this collection, a way of thinking associated with the Enlightenment that led William Hunter to spend decades gathering artifacts and then specifying that they be housed in a posthumous museum.”—Edward Rothstein, Wall Street Journal“Hunter’s book, the subject of an essay by Mungo Campbell, is one of the most remarkable and also most beautiful medical publications of its time.” —Duncan Macmillan, The Art NewspaperLong listed for the Historians of British Art Book Prize
£45.00
Yale University Press Renoir
Book SynopsisTrade Review“[An] intelligent, always lucid catalogue”—David Carrier, Hyperallergic “[a] gorgeous catalogue”—Peter Schjeldahl, New Yorker“tactility is one of the senses referred to in the show’s title, and capably defended in the catalog”—Roberta Smith, New York Times
£38.00
Yale University Press The Woman in White
Book SynopsisTrade Review“[The Woman in White] argues that Hiffernan was more collaborator than victim, an assessment that strives to write her into history as Whistler’s indispensable partner.”—Gioia Diliberto, Wall Street Journal“[A] lavish volume . . . illuminating . . . Ms. MacDonald’s deep research has corrected some misinformation and unearthed important new facts.” —Gioia Diliberto, Wall Street Journal“The Woman in White examines the relationship between the prickly American painter and the muse-mistress who modeled for his haunting ‘Symphonies in White’ . . . [and] argues that the two formed a symbiotic partnership.”—Michael Dirda, Washington Post (“This Season’s Hidden Gems”)“There are…illuminating chapters retelling Hiffernan’s biography and the story of her relationship with Whistler, alongside fascinating and new discoveries pertaining to the physical makeup of The Woman in White, its materiality, and its legacy, once more emphasising the formalist facets of white on white as a premodernist theme.”—Marte Stinis, British Association of Victorian Studies Newsletter
£36.00
WW Norton & Co Expressive Anatomy for Comics and Narrative
Book SynopsisThe final volume of Will Eisner’s celebrated instructional trilogy explores the critical principle of body grammar in comics storytelling.
£18.99
The University of Michigan Press Mammy
Book SynopsisRepresentations of Mammy have had a pervasive influence on the American literary and cultural imagination. This book traces the mammy figure at various historical moments linked to phases in America's racial consciousness. It features color illustrations of varied depictions of the mammy figure from the nineteenth century onwards.Trade Review"An engaging study of 'mammy,' the provocative figure of the African American nanny, cook, and housekeeper in white households... Wallace-Sanders reveals... disturbing innuendos of mammy still relevant today, in particular the elevation in value of raising others' children at the expense of one's own." - Choice "In this insightful analysis of representations of mammy, Wallace-Sanders skillfully illustrates how this core icon of Black womanhood has figured prominently in upholding hierarchies of race, gender, and class in the United States. Far from being a timeless, natural, benign image of domesticity, the idealized mammy figure was repeatedly reworked to accommodate varying configurations of racial rule. No one reading this book will be able to see Gone with the Wind in the same way ever again." - Patricia Hill Collins, University of Maryland"
£29.08
The University of Michigan Press Portraits of Violence
Book SynopsisExplores the image and idea of facial disfigurement in one of its most troubling modern formations, as a symbol and consequence of war. Suzannah Biernoff draws on a wide variety of sources mainly from WWI but also contemporary photography and computer games. Each chapter revolves around particular images.Trade ReviewA powerful and engaging study of the politics of representation of facial disfigurement in medical and mass culture, Portraits of Violence is a substantial addition to the study of visual culture and disability."" - Sander Gilman, Emory University""Portraits of Violence thus breaks new scholarly ground and also points out many directions that future research in a number of fields, including disability studies, visual culture and art history, medical humanities and the history of medicine, and the history of World War I."" - Carol Poore, Brown University
£60.95
Dover Publications Inc. Mastering Drawing the Human Figure
Book SynopsisThis book is for all of those who love to draw the human form. It is for those who have never drawn a line, for those who are students who can draw to a certain degree, and for those professional artists who are proficient in drawing. It is also, of course, for those who teach drawing. Thus begins the Introduction to this comprehensive handbook for drawing the human figure. Author Jack Faragasso ? an internationally renowned art instructor, fine artist, and illustrator ? taught at the Art Students League of New York for five decades. He is also the foremost instructor in the highly regarded Reilly system of drawing and painting, developed by Frank J. Reilly. Both a guide and a reference, Mastering Drawing the Human Figure features hundreds of illustrations with commentary that cover the basic structure of the head and body, light and shade, the proper use of line, conveying action, depicting drapery, and much more.
£21.24
Thames & Hudson Ltd Postures Body Language in Art
Book SynopsisExamining the body language displayed in works of art is a whole new way of looking at art. The gestures portrayed can reflect the mores of a particular period in history, the customs of a certain culture or a fashion in artistic styles. Exploring these with masterful subtlety, celebrated artist and anthropologist Desmond Morris uncovers fascinating insights about changing social attitudes and conventions through history and around the world, finding surprising similarities as well as now rarely used gestures. Morris selects a number of key gestures, such as the handshake, the pointed foot, or the glove-slap, and groups them by the message they are intended to convey, such as Greetings, Status and Threats. He discusses the previously unconsidered symbolism behind these. What is understood as a gang sign today may have borne a more enigmatic meaning for Botticelli. And what did Napoleon's hidden hand really mean? Postures: Body Language in Art uniquely combines the author's expertise in both art and social science, so that even the most familiar paintings are suddenly seen in a new light.Trade Review'Morris’s text sparkles with wit and the reader is instantly carried away by his enthusiasm for presenting art in a completely new way' - Irish Times
£21.21
Thames & Hudson Ltd Linda Nochlin on The Body
Book SynopsisRenowned art historian and pioneering feminist Linda Nochlin explores how, from the late 18th century, fragmented, mutilated and fetishized representations of the human body came to constitute a distinctively modern view of the world. Surprising, questioning, challenging, enriching: the Pocket Perspectives series celebrates writers and thinkers who have helped shape the conversation across the arts. Mixing classic and contemporary texts, reissues and abridgements, these are bite-sized, fully illustrated reads in an attractive, affordable and highly collectable package.
£11.69
Thames & Hudson Ltd Representing Women
Book SynopsisFascinating essays Nochlin is a woman of learning and accomplishment' Andrea DworkinTrade Review'Fascinating … Nochlin is a woman of learning and accomplishment' - Andrea Dworkin'A joy to read … blunt, funny, mischievous, learned, anything but dull and dogmatic' - London Review of Books'Outstanding … rich and methodologically sophisticated' - Art in America'Invaluable' - Art Journal'If you care about the representation of women, you need to read this … Nochlin’s direct, provocative and personal tone is a radical rewriting of women in art history' - ElephantTable of ContentsIntroduction: Memoirs of an Ad Hoc Art Historian • 1. The Myth of the Woman Warrior • 2. Géricault: The Absence of Women • 3. The Image of the Working Woman • 4. Courbet’s Real Allegory: Rereading The Painter’s Studio • 5. A House Is Not a Home: Degas and the Subversion of the Family • 6. Mary Cassatt’s Modernity • 7. Body Politics: Seurat’s Poseuses
£17.00
University of California Press Faces of Power
Book SynopsisDuring his reign and following his death, the physiognomy of Alexander the Great was one of the most famous in history, adorning numerous works of art. This study demonstrates how the various portraits transmit not so much a likeness of Alexander as a set of cliches that symbolized the ruler.
£70.40
Cambridge University Press Children in the Visual Arts of Imperial Rome
Book SynopsisIn this 2005 study, Jeannine Uzzi examines the ruling elite's notions of what it meant to be Roman by examining images of children in Roman imperial art. Roman children are most often shown in depictions of peaceful public gatherings before the emperor, whereas non-Roman children appear only in scenes of submission, triumph, or violent military activity.Table of Contents1. Introduction: the question; 2. Evidence, methodology, and the child image; 3. Imperial largesse; 4. Public gathering; 5. Anaglypha Traiani/Hadriani; 6. Submission; 7. Triumph; 8. Battle ground; 9. Ara Pacis; 10. Conclusion: a narrative of identity; Appendix. Children in nonofficial imagery.
£94.07
Random House USA Inc The Waste Land and Other Poems
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£9.90
Harvard University Press The Image of the Black in Western Art Volume III
Book SynopsisEurope and the World Beyond focuses geographically on peoples of South America and the Mediterranean as well as Africa, but conceptually it emphasizes the ways that visual constructions of blacks mediated between Europe and a faraway African continent that was impinging ever more closely on daily life in cities and ports engaged in the slave trade.Trade ReviewThis volume, part of a monumental series about the depiction of black peoples in Western art history, covers the period from the Renaissance and Baroque eras into the imperialism and colonialism of the 18th century… The volume is richly illustrated with artworks from many sources in a wide variety of media… This volume and the rest of the series has inestimable value in furthering understanding of how attitudes toward issues of race have evolved. -- Eugene C. Burt * Library Journal (starred review) *Inspired to collect images of Africans and the diaspora during the height of the Civil Rights movement, Dominique Schlumberger de Menil and her husband John amassed over 30,000 images as an artistic and academic counter against racism. These images were sorted, studied, and grouped into a series of volumes originally published in the late 1970s and early 1980s; long out of print, they are now beautifully reproduced along with additional color plates and scholarly commentary. This edition focuses on the depictions of blacks during the 16th–18th centuries. Due to Eurocentric attitudes of the time, few works depict black individuals; rather, people of African descent were often studied at an anthropological level and commonly depicted as pages, slaves, or servants. Though the series has rightfully become embraced by academia, even armchair historians will find the book to be a feast of information and commentary. Digressions on the black Magus and the debate about the race of Madonna and Jesus are fascinating, but it is the breathtaking collection of artwork that makes the greatest impact. The rich and varied array, printed on high-quality paper, must be seen to be fully appreciated. * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *Monumental and groundbreaking volumes…[with] beautifully reproduced and thought-provoking images… A vast array of different ‘Images of the Black’ appear in these volumes, from statues of black saints such as St. Maurice or St. Benedict the Moor, to portraits of notable African ambassadors and kings, poets and musicians, or drawings of literary characters such as Shakespeare’s Othello, Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko, or Yarico from George Colman’s Inkle and Yarico… Africans have been painted and sculpted by some of the most eminent artists in the Western tradition, including Titian, Tiepolo, Rubens, Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Reynolds, Hogarth, Watteau and Gainsborough. More importantly, they have not been caricatured, but sensitively portrayed by these masters, their humanity captured on canvas for all to see… In placing such a vast variety of different images together, both positive and negative, these volumes show that the ‘Image of the Black’ was not at all homogenous but rather reflected the wide range of the Western response to the ‘other.’ …Seen through the prism of ‘Western Art,’ these ‘Images of the Black’ often tell us more about the Europeans and their agendas than the Africans they portray. Nonetheless, the cumulative effect of the images is to demonstrate a continuous black presence in the Western imagination and experience… This series will pose new questions to scholars of art, history and literature and provoke us all to reconsider the role of ‘the Black’ in Western civilization. -- Miranda Kaufmann * Times Literary Supplement *A fascinating story of the changing image of Africa’s people in Western art. The images are simply extraordinary and the scholarship inspiring. Anyone who cares about Western art or about Africa and her diaspora ought to know these magnificent volumes. -- Kwame Anthony AppiahIn addition to being an indispensable guide to the evolving meanings of racial difference, these dazzling volumes filled with extraordinary images and rich arguments contribute to an alternative history of the Western world. An invaluable gift for both specialists and general readers. -- Paul Gilroy, author of The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness
£67.16
Batsford Ltd New Fashion Figure Templates
Book SynopsisThe essential book for any fashion student or designer who wants to create stunning fashion illustrations quickly but lacks either the time or the confidence to draw their own.
£15.29
Phaidon Press Ltd 500 SelfPortraits
Book SynopsisA compelling collection of self-portraits from throughout recorded history, revised to include captivating contemporary worksTrade Review"This newly published edition curates a collection of chronologically ordered self-portraits that explore and express the many ways in which artists have found to represent themselves throughout the years... Perfect for both the art-obsessed and the selfie-obsessed, incorporating, a variety of artistic techniques, profound imagery and modern culture into one book, encapsulating the reader in a wonderful journey throughout the ages about, what we now refer to as, the selfie."—CentMagazine.co.uk"80 years and a World War have passed since Phaidon first published 500 Self-Portraits in 1937. Since then the world has changed irrevocably, but the desire to record and capture our own likeness is stronger than ever. The selfie has made the self-portrait a ubiquitous preoccupation, not just the pursuit of artists. The newly revised edition of 500 Self-Portraits features work by celebrated artists such as Dürer, Rembrandt, Marina Abramovic, David Hockney, and Cindy Sherman, but has also been expanded to include the work of marginal figures, feminist artworks and the self-portraits of artists with diverse ethnic and geographical backgrounds."—DazedDigital.com"This wonderful book (at a fantastic bargain price) covers portraits from antiquity to the present day... There is a great selection of familiar and unfamiliar portraits... One thing is for certain: this new edition is going to be a best-seller."—MatureTimes.co.uk"A compelling collection of self-portraits from throughout recorded history, revised to include captivating contemporary works is released today by Phaidon."—Nowness.tumblr.com"You could say the need to record one's own image is an intrinsic part of human nature. But how much have those selfies changed in the last four and a half thousand years? And what do they have to say about the visual representation of self?"—i-D.vice"I long ago learnt that I could learn as much about photography from looking at paintings as I could from looking at photographs. Which is why I'm happy to recommend this wonderful book of self-portraits, many of which are not photographs... First published in 1937, and abridged in 2000, 500 Self-Portraits is now revised and expanded to provide us with the most fascinating collection of this familiar art form. If you've ever been tempted to lift your camera in front of a mirror or hold your cameraphone at arm's length, this book will give you a rich history of the genre in which you are partaking."—Black & White Photography Magazine"Flowing chronologically from antiquity to the present day, this volume takes the reader through the apparently infinite ways artists have found to represent themselves in sculptures, etchings, paintings, film, installations and conceptual works."—Art Mag"Admire famous "selfies" through the ages in photography, painting, drawing and sculpture with Phaidon's 500 Self Portraits."—SphereLife.com"Art book publisher Phaidon has given this classic 80-year-old text a reworking. 500 Self-Portraits has been revised for the first time in two decades. It's been given a smart new cover and layers, but still contains the best self-portraits every produced, across various periods and disciplines, plus essays on what they say about the artists who made them."—CreativeBloq.com"Face to face with the greats."—Project Calm, June"Explore the fascinating ways that artists from antiquity to the present day have chosen to paint themselves with this beautiful selection of self-portraits."—Artists & Illustrators Magazine
£17.95
Phaidon Press Ltd 500 Autorretratos Nueva Edicin Actualizada 500
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£32.16
Manchester University Press The Invisible Flaneuse Gender Public Space and
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays applies the most current thinking in literature and urban studies to an examination of visual culture of 19th century France – painting, caricature, illustrated magazines, posters – resulting in a subtle map of the gendered topography of Parisian modernity, the stomping ground of the flâneur.Table of ContentsList of ContributorsList of Illustrations1. Introduction: Aruna D’Souza and Tom McDonough2. Gender and the Haunting of Cities (Or, The Retirement of the Flâneur): Janet Wolff3. Women in Public: The Display of Femininity in the Parks of Paris: Greg M. Thomas4. Dusting the Surface, or The Bourgeoisie, the Veil, and Haussmann’s Paris: Marni Kessler5. Disorienting Orient: Duret and Guimet, Anxious Flâneurs in Asia: Ting Chang6. TRANSCRYPTS: Some Notes Between Pricks: Simon Leung7. Not the Flâneur Again: Reading Magazines and Living the Metropolis around 1880: Tom Gretton8. The Flâneuse in French Fin-de-Siècle Posters: Advertising Images of Modern Women in Paris: Ruth E. Iskin9. Why the Impressionists Never Painted the Department Store: Aruna D’Souza10. City of Strangers: Tom McDonough11. The Contemporary Flâneuse: Helen Scalway 12. Afterword: Linda NochlinSelect Bibliography
£18.99
Manchester University Press Maternal Bodies in the Visual Arts
Book SynopsisAnalyses images of the maternal and pregnant body in historical art -- .Trade Review'This book treads delicately between historical analysis ofthe visualisation of the maternal and an embodied experience of looking. It isvital for any visual artist, historian or social scientist seeking therehabilitation of the maternal into art history and the practice ofaesthetics.'Hermione Wiltshire,artist and Senior Tutor in Photography, Royal College of Art‘Betterton provides a dazzlingly erudite topography ofmaternal bodies across history and the western world, ranging from the sacredto the profane, from the public to the private and the dis/abled and “out ofplace” to culturally entrenched norms.'Cathy McClive, BenWeider Chair in French Revolutionary Studies, Associate Professor in History,Florida State University‘Maternal bodies is a rich and much needed account of thematernal and what may appear on the surface. It speaks of the artists who havechallenged and given voice to this important experience and summons a forcefulbank of representation and image through its visual intensity and dialogue.’Helen Knowles,artist and Curator/Director of the Birth Rites Collection -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: becoming maternal1 Maternal space and public intimacy2 Maternal matters: making bodies in art3 Enfleshing the divine: sacred and profane maternal bodies4 The transparent womb: visual technologies and the maternal 5 Promising monsters and the maternal imagination 6 Maternal time: moments of encounter7 Ageing and maternal bodiesIndex
£76.50
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Bodies of WorkContemporary Figurative Painting
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewSummer must-read. -- Watercolor Artist Magazine
£36.79
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Women on the Walls
Book SynopsisPart travelogue and part dialogue, this is the first book on the market to exclusively focus on women as subjects in street art! Interviews with artists peel back the layers between artist and image, revealing stories about their work, its context, and its environment. The women are depicted artistically, politically, and culturally across continents.The artists featured are from the United States, Mexico, Costa Rica, Peru, Chile, France, Italy, and South Africa. From artists in LA pushing back on Hollywood's shiny perfection; to painters in Costa Rica examining the cultural links of women, myth, and nature; to women in South Africa decrying domestic violence, what links these works are their temporality and public ownership. Why do wall artists choose women as their frequent and favorite subjects? What does it say about our conceptions of gender and rebellion, protest, pride, place, and community? And how does
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Stanford University Press Flesh of My Flesh
Book SynopsisWhat is a woman? What is a man? How do they - and how should they - relate to each other? Does our yearning for 'wholeness' refer to something real, and if there is a Whole, what is it, and why do we feel so estranged from it? This book offers a promising view of human relations.Trade Review"The examination [in this book] goes in depth of many works, far beyond what most people are used to. Yet Silverman never loser her way... A book to challenge the idea of gender and the mind."—Kevin Winter, Sacramento Book Review"This is an extraordinary book: Silverman's magnum opus. In some respects it is sui generis, and yet its stakes are so high they could almost be called universal. In my opinion, this is the kind of book that one comes across only a few times in one's life. It is that important."—George Baker, University of California, Los Angeles"Kaja Silverman is not simply one of the most gifted literary and cultural critics of our time: she possesses the kind of roving, idiosyncratic mind one associates with names like Walter Benjamin or E. M. Cioran. Flesh of My Flesh is the most available but also the most challenging book that Silverman has written, and to read it is to feel that you have traveled an extraordinary distance by standing in one place. The repercussions of this book about finitude are infinite." —James Longenbach"Flesh of My Flesh is a haunting and quite palpably haunted look at the costs of living in illusions of solitude. Kaja Silverman's thesis, pursued over centuries of artistic work and thought, is that it is in the experience of analogy that an authentic approach to mortality is possible. Above all, her project is to illuminate the ways that the individual—artist, soldier, or citizen—is haunted by war and violence and that the metabolizing of such violence and horror requires relationality. From a psychoanalytic perspective in which intersubjectivity and relatedness are central, this is fascinating and welcome news." —Adrienne Harris, New York University
£23.74
Louisiana State University Press Uncovering Paris
Book SynopsisEmphasizing the role of erotic entertainment as an outlet and agent of modern sensibilities, Uncovering Paris: Scandals and Nude Spectacles in the Belle Epoque offers a fresh approach to important topics of the period - Bohemian artists, the New Woman, and press censorship - and reinterprets them through the lens of la femme nue.
£36.86
Abrams Human Anatomy
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£17.99
