Human figures depicted in the arts Books
Casemate Publishers Pilots and Painted Ladies
Book SynopsisRaised on a farm in Montana, Vernon Drake enlisted in the Army Air Corp in the spring of 1942. Assigned to the 493rd Bomb Squadron, 7th Bomb Group of the 10th Air Force stationed in India, he piloted B-24 bombers into Burma in a fight to prevent the Japanese from advancing north to China, then flew C-108 gas-hauling tankers across the formidable Himalayas to support the U.S. and Allied armies. This dangerous airlift saw tons of fuel and supplies flown daily over the tallest mountain range in the world, regardless of the weather. He and the other airmenaged only eighteen to twenty-fiveflew dangerous missions over unforgiving territory against a brutal enemy. To provide some personal identity in an impersonal war, aircrews often painted artwork and identifying names onto the nose of their aircraft. As a talented artist, Lt Drake would spend many off-duty hours painting aircraft at the request of their crews, becoming a significant contributor to the nose art of the 10th Air Force. Drake'
£23.96
National Gallery Company Ltd A Closer Look: Faces
Book SynopsisFaces are everywhere in the National Gallery’s collection: in portraits and narrative scenes, in allegories and paintings of everyday life. It is often the faces shown that communicate most directly in a picture; their expressions may reveal the drama of a story, or the character of a sitter in a portrait. A Closer Look: Faces examines a wide array of fascinating faces found in paintings at the National Gallery. It explains why artists in the past created faces to look as they do, what painters through the ages have considered the "ideal" face, how faces are painted, and the reasons for the development of portrait painting. Illustrated with seventy pictures and beautiful details, this book provides an insider's view of the many faces in Western European art.Published by National Gallery Company/Distributed by Yale University Press
£12.00
3DTotal Publishing Ltd Character Design Quarterly 32
Book SynopsisCharacter Design Quarterly (CDQ) is a lively, creative magazine bringing inspiration, expert insights, and leading techniques from professional illustrators, artists, and character art enthusiasts worldwide.Each issue provides detailed tutorials on creating diverse characters, enabling you to explore the processes and decision making that go into creating amazing characters. Learn new ways to develop your own ideas, and discover from the artists what it is like to work for prolific animation studios such as Disney, Warner Bros., and DreamWorks.One of 3dtotal''s favourite contributing artists, Simone Grünewald from Germany shares her wealth of knowledge and talent with CDQ in this issue, with a beautiful cover design, an insightful interview, and an inspiring tutorial showing us how she came up with the cover artwork. Also in this issue, LA-based artist Chelsea Blecha discusses how to effectively use lighting to enhance your character designs, Rex Crowle (a video-game designer from London) shares his experience creating characters for Monkey Island, LittleBigPlanet, and more. Plus Kate Pellerin (aka Poopikat), who has over 166k followers on Instagram and lives in Toronto, Canada, reimagines the character of Alice from Alice in Wonderland in an in-depth tutorial.
£11.40
Rocketship Entertainment Bleeding Edges: The Art of Danni Shinya Luo
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Scheidegger and Spiess La main et le gant
Book SynopsisThe human hand, flexible, mobile and sensitive, is a fascinating and unique part of nature. Its shape and its practical as well as social function have inspired countless artists throughout history. This book explores representations of the human hand, and the glove as its accessory of choice, in art from the 17th century until today. Richly illustrated, it offers panorama of periods and media such as drawing, printmaking, painting, video, and sculpture that demonstrates the creative and metaphorical power of the human hand as a motif in art.The essays explore the rich and varied symbolism surrounding hands and gloves, and throw new light at the work of Austrian expressionist painter Oskar Kokoschka (18861980). For Kokoschka, the topic of human hands was of remarkable importance. Throughout his career, they often appear in the foreground of his works, oversized, in dynamic, active postures and as instruments of expression. They embody Kokoschka's attention to the human figure
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Nasjonalmuseet Deviant Ornaments
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Taschen GmbH Egon Schiele. Die Gemälde. 40th Ed.
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Yale University Press Johan Zoffany RA
Book SynopsisThe 18th-century painter Johan Zoffany (1733-1810) was an astute observer of the many social circles in which he functioned as an artist. This catalogue investigates his sharp wit, shrewd political appraisal, and perceptive social commentary - all achieved while presenting his subjects as delightful and sophisticated members of polite society.Trade ReviewShortlisted for the William M. B. Berger Prize for British History, as given by the Berger Collection Educational Trust and The British Art Journal -- William M. B. Berger Prize * Berger Collection Educational Trust and The British Art Journal *
£61.75
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.
£14.25
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
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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'
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Edinburgh University Press Mens Bodies
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Taschen GmbH Freud
Book SynopsisLucian Freud (1922–2011) was interested in the telling of truths. Always operating outside the main currents of 20th-century art, the esteemed portrait painter observed his subjects with the regimen and precision of a laboratory scientist. He recorded not only the blotches, bruises, and swellings of the living body, but also, beneath the flaws and folds of flesh, the microscopic details of what lies within: the sensation, the emotion, the intelligence, the bloom, and the inevitable, unstoppable decay. Despite rejecting parallels between him and his renowned grandfather, the correlation between Lucian Freud’s sitting process for portraiture and Sigmund Freud’s psychotherapy sessions is a fascinating element to this figurative oeuvre. Despite the thickness of the impasto surfaces, Freud’s portraits of subjects as varied as the Queen, Kate Moss, and an obese job center supervisor penetrate the physicality of the body with a direct and often disarming insight. The result is as much a psychological interrogation as it is an uneasy examination of the relationship between artist and model. This book brings together some of Freud’s most outstanding and unapologetic portraits, to introduce an artist widely considered one of the finest masters of the human form.
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Te Papa Press Nga Tai Whakarongorua Encounters
Book SynopsisA handy and accessibly priced take-home guide to the portrait wall in Toi Art, the best-loved and most-visited section of the Te Papa art galleries. Beautifully designed, published in te reo Māori and English, and with artist biographies and insights into conservation.Table of ContentsHe Tūtakinga, He Tūtukinga | Encounters and Collisions page 7 Mō ngā ringatoa | About the artists page 106 Kuputaka | Glossary page 110 Hei pānui anō | Further reading page 111
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Seen
Book SynopsisThis wide-ranging study traces the forces that drove the production and interpretation of visual images of Shakespeare''s plays. Covering a rich chronological terrain, from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the midpoint of the nineteenth, Stuart Sillars offers a multidisciplinary, nuanced approach to reading Shakespeare in relation to image, history, text, book history, print culture and performance. The volume begins by relating the production imagery of Shakespeare''s plays to other visual forms and their social frames, before discussing the design and operation of illustrated editions and the ''performance readings'' they offer, and analysing the practical and theoretical foundations of easel paintings. Close readings of The Comedy of Errors, King Lear, the Roman plays, The Merchant of Venice and Othello provide detailed insight into how the plays have been represented visually, and are accompanied by numerous illustrations and a beautiful colour plate section.Trade Review'This is a remarkable and important study of the visual dimension of Shakespeare and has implications far beyond the historical period addressed. The scholarship is impeccable and while the argument of the book is magnificently lucid, it is prosecuted with admirable subtlety.' Dympna C. Callahan, Syracuse University, New York'Stuart Sillars offers a model of careful interpretation, of these images' idiom and taste, their devices, in constant reference to the plays themselves and contemporaneous performance … both his methods and terms will prove valuable to those wishing to understand the relationship between Shakespeare as performed and as seen.' The Times Literary SupplementTable of Contents1. Frames and circumstances; Part I. Structures and Concepts in Shakespeare Imaging: 2. Mechanism and meaning in illustrated editions; 3. Performance reading in practice; 4. Shakespeare painting and aesthetic identity; Part II. Image, Stage and Beyond: Instances and Movement: 5. The visual identities of The Comedy of Errors; 6. Text, image and temper in King Lear; 7. Rhythms of action and feeling: the Roman plays; 8. Rank and race in imaging Othello; 9. The Merchant of Venice and English visual culture; 10. Shakespeare painting 1800–1848; 11. Conclusions and departures.
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Carcanet Press Ltd Drawings
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Images Publishing Group Pty Ltd Flower Shower
Book Synopsis"Her stunning images push boundaries and feature portraits of a wonderfully diverse selection of strong, bold people of all ages, races, and body types." — Loeidela Photographie "Inspirational, feminine and colourful..." — Flair Mode Magazin "...[pays] homage to all these forms of beauty that our society struggles to recognize".—Costanza Spina, Lense Alexandra Sophie is a French artist and renowned fashion and fine art photographer. Her work is described as sensual, fresh, and feminine, often entwining humans with nature. Alexandra Sophie’s powerful and award-winning photographic work narrates stories on being human, the human being in environmental contexts — interwoven through floral themes — and explores identity through subjects such as sexuality, feminism, and interrogations on what constitutes the “normal” frontier. Alexandra’s award-winning photography has gained international recognition, featuring collaborations and covers with high-fashion clientele, such as Swarovski, Cacharel, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Elle, and Harper’s Bazaar UK, among many others; in 2018 Forbes named her as one to watch in its 30Under30 Europe profile. This highly illustrated book, which will include a preface written by Nathalie Colin (former Creative Director at Swarovski), comprises a lavish and rich portfolio of Alexandra’s photographic portraits that is inspirational, beautiful, contemporary, and colourful. Her stunning images push boundaries and feature portraits of a wonderfully diverse selection of strong, bold people of all ages, races, and body types.Trade Review"A soft collection of young women in the natural landscape that explores themes of identity, sexuality, feminism, and the social codes of “normalcy.”" - Miss Rosen, i-D"Her stunning images push boundaries and feature portraits of a wonderfully diverse selection of strong, bold people of all ages, races, and body types." - Loeidela Photographie"Inspirational, feminine and colourful; Alexandra Sophie connects in her first photo book "Flower Shower"." [Translated using Google Translate] - Flair Mode Magazin"...[pays] homage to all these forms of beauty that our society struggles to recognize". - Costanza Spina, Lense"Discover the dreamlike universe of photographer Alexandra Sophie." - Savoir Tout faire en Photographie"This cultural choice is primarily in the love of a woman's body, home, fashion, art and even those that end with passionate kisses." (Translated from Czech via Google Translate) - Haarpers CzechMarie Claire Korea featured Flower Shower in their July 2022 issue. - Marie Claire Korea"Delicate, floral and fresh." [Translated via Google Translate from French] - PHOTO Magazine
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Vault Editions Ltd Skulls and Skeletons: An Image Archive and Anatomy Reference Book for Artists and Designers: An Image Archive and Drawing Reference Book for Artists and Designers
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Vault Editions Ltd Greek and Roman Sculpture
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Familius LLC Life Without Blinders . . . Is Beautiful
Book SynopsisIf you could see without blinders, would the world look different?Thorns hurt, but they come with roses. Strings can tie down, but they keep kites up. People can look different, but their hearts beat more like ours than we’ll ever know. The trouble is, all of us wear blinders that make it hard to see what’s really true.Life Without Blinders . . . Is Beautiful is an inspiring, thought-provoking invitation to step out of the darkness and discover the abundant beauty hidden in this crazy, messy, wonderful world. Each spread features one of over thirty stirring questions accompanied by an image covered with a die-cut blinders window. Flip over the blinders window, and you’ll see what’s really true: Storm clouds are a chance to dance in the rain. Ashes lead to new birth. Strangers can be friends. Kindness comes from unlikely sources. And life can be more beautiful than you ever imagined.Even the jacket is a blinders page that can be removed.
£11.24
Editions Skira Paris Leonardo da Vinci and Anatomy: The Mechanics of
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Penguin Random House LLC Invention of Hysteria Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpêtrière
Book SynopsisThe first English-language publication of a classic French book on the relationship between the development of photography and of the medical category of hysteria.In this classic of French cultural studies, Georges Didi-Huberman traces the intimate and reciprocal relationship between the disciplines of psychiatry and photography in the late nineteenth century. Focusing on the immense photographic output of the Salpetriere hospital, the notorious Parisian asylum for insane and incurable women, Didi-Huberman shows the crucial role played by photography in the invention of the category of hysteria. Under the direction of the medical teacher and clinician Jean-Martin Charcot, the inmates of Salpetriere identified as hysterics were methodically photographed, providing skeptical colleagues with visual proof of hysteria''s specific form. These images, many of which appear in this book, provided the materials for the multivolume album Iconographie photographique de la Salpetriere.As Didi-Huberman shows, these photographs were far from simply objective documentation. The subjects were required to portray their hysterical type—they performed their own hysteria. Bribed by the special status they enjoyed in the purgatory of experimentation and threatened with transfer back to the inferno of the incurables, the women patiently posed for the photographs and submitted to presentations of hysterical attacks before the crowds that gathered for Charcot''s Tuesday Lectures.Charcot did not stop at voyeuristic observation. Through techniques such as hypnosis, electroshock therapy, and genital manipulation, he instigated the hysterical symptoms in his patients, eventually giving rise to hatred and resistance on their part. Didi-Huberman follows this path from complicity to antipathy in one of Charcot''s favorite cases, that of Augustine, whose image crops up again and again in the Iconographie. Augustine''s virtuosic performance of hysteria ultimately became one of self-sacrifice, seen in pictures of ecstasy, crucifixion, and silent cries.
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Random House USA Inc The Waste Land and Other Poems
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Lulu.com TheLeIl Male
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LEGARE STREET PR Constructive Anatomy
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LEGARE STREET PR Constructive Anatomy
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LEGARE STREET PR The Human Machine
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Lulu.com Disruptivo en 100 Días
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Lulu.com Homoerotic Halloween
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Naval & Military Press A Surgical Artist at War
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform How to Draw Warriors of Fantasy
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Read Books Twenty Drawings
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform How to Draw People: Learn How to Draw Portraits and Human Figures
£8.89
Echo Point Books & Media High-focus Drawing: A Revolutionary Approach to Drawing the Figure
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Echo Point Books & Media The Human Figure (Dover Anatomy for Artists)
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Echo Point Books & Media The Natural Way to Paint: Rendering the Figure in Watercolor Simply and Beautifully
Book SynopsisLearn to figure paint in watercolor with a world-renowned instructor! The Natural Way to Paint will teach you a natural approach to seeing and painting the human form in watercolor. By learning to carefully observe and capture the basic shapes and subtle nuances in human figures, you''ll be able to infuse your work with newfound life and energy. Reid begins with lessons and practical exercises in contour and gesture drawing, which will help you learn to see and capture the essence of your subject. Once you''ve established a strong foundation of drawing skills, it''s time to pick up your brush! Reid will guide you through detailed lessons on: Painting technique and color theory Moving from silhouettes to three-dimensional forms Capturing and rendering facial features Composing and designing a variety of figure paintings Packed with examples, demonstrations, and detailed assignments, The Natural Way to Paint is the ultimate guide to beautiful figure painting in watercolor.Charles Reid has long been considered a master painter. His paintings are fresh and spontaneous, displaying his profound understanding of light and color and expert drawing ability. Reid was born in Cambridge, New York, and studied art at the University of Vermont and the Art Students League of New York. He has won numerous awards, including the Childe Hassam Purchase Prize at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the National Academy of Design, and the American Watercolor Society. In 1980 he was elected to the National Academy of Design. Public collections of his work include Smith College, Yellowstone Art Center, Brigham Young College, Roche Corporation, and the National Academy of Design. In addition to painting, Reid teaches workshops around the world. He has written eleven books on painting in watercolor and oil.Readers interested in related titles from Charles Reid will also want to see: Flower painting in oil (ISBN: 9781626543805), Painting by Design (ISBN: 9781626543218), Painting What (You Want) to See (ISBN: 9781626543782), Pulling Your Paintings Together (ISBN: 9781626543843 ).
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Echo Point Books & Media Heads, Features and Faces (Dover Anatomy for Artists)
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Ulysses Press Drawing People: Learn How to Draw Realistic
Book SynopsisDiscover how to draw true-to-life human figures and poses with detailed step-by-step instructions and tips and tricks on the best drawing techniques.Grab your sketchbook, pens, and pencils and follow along as this instructional drawing guide teaches you everything you need to know about creating the most realistic human figures. With more than 150 easy-to-follow illustrations, Drawing People is the perfect guide for aspiring artists looking to develop their people-drawing skills. Start off simple with learning how to draw basic body shapes. By the end, you will have gained the anatomical knowledge you need to make your human figures as realistic as possible including learning to draw: Specific muscle groups Artistic body poses Lifelike portraits And much more! Whether you?re a beginner or a drawing pro, Drawing People is the perfect book for anyone looking to hone their technical drawing skills and take their illustrations to the next level.
£15.19
Must Have Books The Human Figure
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Jeremy Mills Publishing Practical Art Anatomy
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Vault Editions Ltd Medical Anomalies
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Wolfgang Publications How to Airbrush Pinups
Book SynopsisThe human form, the human face, and skin tones, are three topics that beginning artists struggle to get right. This book covers these three topics. It presents a collection of ten sequences done by airbrush artists.
£26.20
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp At the Millenniums End
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tredition Die Erbschaft
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tredition Die Kunst der Gruppenhypnose
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tredition Die Kunst der Gruppenhypnose
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tredition Anatomia Humana
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