Nudes depicted in the arts Books
Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc Drawing and Painting Beautiful Faces: A
Book SynopsisDrawing and Painting Beauitful Faces is an inspiring, mixed media workbook on how to draw and paint beautiful, fashion illustration-style faces. Author Jane Davenport is a beloved artist, and popular international workshop instructor known by her thousands of students and fans for her over-the-top, enthusiastic, happy and encouraging style. In this book, she guides you step-by-step through the foundations of drawing a face, developing successful features, creating skintones, playing with bright colors, shading, highlighting and much more as you learn to create amazing mixed media portraits. Master a variety of techniques that employ pencil, marker, pen, watercolor, acrylic paint, ink, pastel, and ephemera as you happily dance your way through the exercises in this brilliant guide.
£15.99
Thames & Hudson Ltd The Naked Nude
Book SynopsisThe story of the nude in art in our times, told by a popular art historian with a rare gift for sharing her passions and ideas. The representation of the nude in art remained for many centuries a victory of fiction over fact. Beautiful, handsome, flawless - its great success was to distance the unclothed body from any uncomfortably explicit taint of sexuality, eroticism or imperfection. In this newly updated study, Frances Borzello contrasts the civilized, sanitized, perfected nude of Kenneth Clark's classic, The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form (1956), with today's depictions: raw, uncomfortable, both disturbing and intriguing. Grittier and more subtle, depicting variously gendered bodies, the new nude asks awkward questions and behaves provocatively. It is a very naked nude, created to deal with the issues and contradictions that surround the body in our time. Borzello explores the role of the nude in twentieth- and twenty-first-century art, looking at the work of a wide range oTrade Review'A thoughtful, highly intelligent book, tracking the newly frank, newly naked nude' - RA Magazine'Titillating, embarrassing and sometimes outright disgusting: here we find art holding a mirror up to our troublesome human nature' - Observer'A fascinating, often humorous overview of our obsession with the naked body' - Daily TelegraphTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Recycled Nude 1. The Nude: Its Life, Death and Resurrection 2. Body Art: The Journey into Nakedness 3. The Changing Room: Female Perspectives 4. Forgive me, I’m a Painter 5. The Naked Portrait 6. After Rodin, Is There Anything Left To Say? 7. Going to Extremes
£17.00
PAUL FREEMAN PUB Rock Banned
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£67.46
HENI Publishing Iggy Pop Life Class A Project by Jeremy Deller
Book SynopsisTwenty-one artists, from all walks of life, gathered at the New York Academy of Art on Sunday, February 21, 2016, for a special life drawing class with a guest model: American rock legend Iggy Pop. The class was organised by the Brooklyn Museum and conceived by artist Jeremy Deller.
£15.99
Manchester University Press Painting Her Pleasure: Three Women Artists and
Book SynopsisThis book examines nudes by three women: Suzanne Valadon, Émilie Charmy and Marie Vassilieff. Working in avant-garde Paris, these artists pioneered modern body imagery, expressing female subjectivity and sexuality in paint.Valadon, Charmy and Vassilieff experimented with the male nude, Black female nude, pregnant nude and nude self-portrait, a genre which few artists tackled until half a century later. Flouting the period’s scientific discourses and social mores, they breached assumptions about ‘feminine’ art and unhinged expectations about the type of subject a woman could paint.Contextualising their work within and against modernism, drawing parallels with later feminist artists and philosophers, this interdisciplinary book unravels the complexities of early twentieth-century gender regimes and persistent cultural stereotypes, providing an illuminating history of women, sexuality and the body.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 'Ni homme, ni femme': Marie Vassilieff’s androgynous bodies2 Painting pleasure: Émilie Charmy and an aesthetics of female jouissance3 Suzanne Valadon and the embodied female subjectConclusionIndex
£76.50
Orion Publishing Co Girl on Girl: Art and Photography in the Age of
Book SynopsisA new generation of women is taking the art world – online and offline – by storm. In an image-obsessed culture saturated with social media, these 40 artists are using photography and the female gaze to redefine the fields of fashion, art, advertising and photojournalism, making a profound impact on our visual world.Trade Review"A startling and stunning book that offers a rich, varied alternative to the idea of the selfie as the contemporary feminist art form."-ELLE "As Girl on Girl makes clear, the female gaze offers a powerful lens through which to view, and better understand, the world."-Artsy "Jansen has curated a compelling group of photographers, asked difficult questions, and produced a beautifully illustrated book . . . [Girl on Girl] manages to be of interest to photographers and historians of photography while staying accessible to readers who are interested in learning about contemporary photography. It's definitely worth a read."-Jezebel "Striking in its breadth."-The Huffington Post "What Jansen's book smartly makes clear is that there is no singular female gaze."-ArtSlant "Women like those in Jansen's book are challenging female representation in visual culture, and perhaps with their ideas in mind, we can begin to challenge the current standards of female visual representation ourselves"-Creator's Project at VICE
£15.29
The Crowood Press Ltd Drawing the Nude: Structure, Anatomy and
Book SynopsisDrawing the Nude is an exciting approach to drawing the human body. Divided into three parts, on structure, anatomy and observation, it introduces a set of principles and develops a treasury of ideas for the artist to follow. Whilst recognizing the importance of observation, it focuses more on a conceptual understanding of the construction of the body in anatomical terms. In doing so, it encourages the cultivation of more informed observation and accommodates those who work from memory, imagination and invention.
£15.29
Nigel Gourlay Twenty-Five Nudes: Engraved by Eric Gill, with an
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£27.98
