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.
£15.19
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
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.
£16.14
Cambridge University Press Male Nudity in the Greek Iron Age
Book SynopsisWhy did the male nude come to occupy such an important place in ancient Greek culture? Despite extended debate, the answer to this question remains obscure. In this book, Sarah Murray demonstrates that evidence from the Early Iron Age Aegean has much to add to the discussion. Her research shows that aesthetics and practices involving male nudity in the Aegean had a complicated origin in prehistory. Murray offers a close analysis of the earliest male nudes from the late Bronze and Early Iron Ages, which mostly take the form of small bronze votive figurines deposited in rural sanctuaries. Datable to the end of the second millennium BCE, these figurines, she argues, enlighten the ritual and material contexts in which nude athletics originated, complicating the rationalizing accounts present in the earliest textual evidence for such practices. Murray's book breaks new ground by reconstructing a scenario for the ritual and ideological origins of nudity in Greek art and culture.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Naked male figurines in the EIA Aegean; 3. Iconographic and regional patterns in EIA bronze figurines and the history of ritual action; 4. The lost wax method of production and EIA bronze figurines; 5. Bronze figurines, transformative processes, and ritual power; 6. EIA nudity and ritual in historical perspective, 225–247; 7. Method and approach in the archaeology of the EIA Aegean.
£85.50
PAUL FREEMAN PUB Rock Banned
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£67.46
Echo Point Books & Media Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century American Art
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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.
£16.99
£15.99
Cambridge University Press The Nude in French Art and Culture 18701910
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