Portraits and self-portraiture in the arts Books
University of Washington Press Christian Krohgs Naturalism
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Christian Krohg, the Radical Naturalist 2. Naturalism, the Dark Side of Realism 3. The Heroism of the Scientist 4. Hippolyte Taine and the Modern Breakthrough in Scandinavia 5. Christian Krohg in Skagen: Painting according to Taine 6. Naturalism and the Beholder: Sympathy and Theatricality 7. Naturalist Paragone: Literature and Painting 8. Albertine in the Police Doctor’s Waiting Room: Panopticon, Spectacle, Speculum 9. Modern Pessimism: From Naturalism to Symbolism Epilogue: Naturalism Is Dead, Long Live Naturalism!
£35.10
Yale University Press The Painted Face Portraits of Women in France
Book SynopsisCharts the history of French female portraiture from its heyday in the early nineteenth century to its demise in the early twentieth century. This book focuses on six canonic paintings and how they illuminate evolving social attitudes and aesthetic concerns in France over the course of the century.
£57.50
Yale University Press Perfect Likeness Portrait Miniatures from the
Book SynopsisDiminutive marvels of artistry and fine craftsmanship, portrait miniatures reveal a wealth of information within their small frames. This book presents approximately 180 portrait miniatures, selected from the holdings of the Cincinnati Art Museum. It includes both American and European miniatures and stresses the continuity of stylistic tradition.Trade Review"Perfect Likeness showcases the largest collection of miniatures in the U.S. . . . "—Booklist * Booklist *
£63.00
Yale University Press Philip de László Life and Art His Life and Art
Book SynopsisPhilip de László (1869-1937) was the pre-eminent portrait artist working in Britain between 1907 and 1937. He painted nearly 3,000 portraits, including those of kings and queens, four American presidents and members of the European nobility. This title gives an account of both his life and his work.Trade Review"[Hart-Davis] is uniquely well-qualified to undertake a life of de Laszlo . . . . this biography is lavishly and intelligently illustrated . . . . [it] should succeed in renewing interest in an artist who ably captured a glamorous, now-vanished world."--Martin Rubin, Washington Times -- Martin Rubin * Washington Times *
£58.50
Yale University Press Citizen Portrait
Book SynopsisFor much of early modern history, the opportunity to be immortalized in a portrait was explicitly tied to social class: only landed elites and royalty had the money and power to commission such an endeavour. This book examines the patronage and production of portraits in Tudor and Jacobean England.Trade ReviewSelected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2013 in the Fine Arts Category. -- Outstanding Academic Title * Choice *
£42.75
Yale University Press The Marble Index
Book SynopsisExploring the relationship with painted portraits, conventions, settings, sitting, making and multiple production, this book argues that the new centrality and aesthetic ambition of the sculptural portrait were informed by Enlightenment notions of perception and selfhood.Trade Review“This book is beautifully laid out with superb photographs and details of sculpture illustrated, while the dense text provides a penetrating analysis of the subject… This ground-breaking compendium of observation and research accrued through years of experience, curating and teaching demands attentive reading.”—Tessa Murdoch, Burlington Magazine -- Tessa Murdoch * Burlington Magazine *
£45.00
Yale University Press This Is a Portrait If I Say So
Book SynopsisThe first in-depth exploration of the rise and evolution of abstract, symbolic, and conceptual portraiture in American artTrade Review“While the rise of identity politics since the early 1990s has subjected ideas of the nature and representation of identity to scrutiny, there has been no single publication that focuses on artists’ development of radical alternative strategies in portraiture. The authors of This Is a Portrait If I Say So are to be applauded for addressing this important and neglected subject, and for the original and significant questions that their project raises.”—Paul Moorhouse, National Portrait Gallery, London -- Paul Moorhouse“Given the scholarly attention devoted to portraiture in recent years, and the growing number of major exhibitions that look at the genre, This Is a Portrait If I Say So is a timely intervention. One of its great strengths is the absolutely fascinating and unusual array of portraits chosen for examination.”—Shearer West, University of Sheffield -- Shearer West“[This] book explores how different artists investigate the meaning of identity through a range of issues, from sexuality and technology to race and politics . . . [to] reveal both the expansiveness and the diversity within the genre of American portraiture.”—The Magazine Antiques * The Magazine Antiques *“In a time when identity, politics, and technology are so prevalent in our daily lives, This is a Portrait If I Say So reveals a new narrative of the progression of portraiture in American art.”—Mackenzie Salisbury, ARLIS/NA Reviews -- Mackenzie Salisbury * ARLIS/NA Reviews *
£45.12
Yale University Press Nicholas Hilliard
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Elizabeth Goldring’s illustrated biography Nicholas Hilliard: Life of an Artist, published to coincide with a major centenary exhibition, tells his story with all the flair of her last book, an examination of the flamboyant and (for his day) selfie-loving Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester” —Suzi Feay, Financial Times“Goldring’s engaging account of his life, character and artistic methods, supported by gorgeous illustrations and illuminating new archival discoveries, makes for a wonderful book, at once authoritative and full of pleasures.” —Helen Hackett, Literary Review“Before you book your tickets [to the National Portrait Gallery’s Hilliard retrospective], read Elizabeth Goldring’s sumptuous survey Nicholas Hilliard: Life of an Artist. Goldring, whose previous book Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester and the World of Elizabethan Art, considered portraiture and patronage, has a fine, incisive eye. This is a scholarly book … but full of insight and courtly intrigue. [. . .] Goldring gives the bones of Hilliard’s biography [. . .] and his turbulent times [. . .] but more than that she encourages you to really look. [. . .]The close-up photographs of jewels and lace are a revelation.” – Laura Freeman, The Times“Richly detailed and illuminating [. . .] If Hans Holbein fixed the appearance of Henry VIII’s court for the ages, it is Nicholas Hilliard who performed that service for Henry’s daughter, Elizabeth. His exquisite portrait miniatures captured not just her transition from youthful monarch to Virgin Queen to Gloriana but the constellation of her court. [. . .] for those sittings he would stare at the royal visage for hours from mere feet away. Perhaps no one else ever looked at her so intently. Goldring’s fascinating and beautifully produced book allows us to do something similar with the limner himself.” – Michael Prodger, The Sunday Times"Elizabeth Goldring's engrossing, thickly illustrated biography shows that it was a rags-to-riches-and-back-again story. [. . .] This superb book vividly conjures a costly dresser and spendthrift, terrible with money, litigious, and sometimes slippery with creditors [. . .] Patrons bailed him out more than once, and his penultimate year was spent in Ludgate jail for debt. What humiliation for one who painted everyone who counted."—Philippa Stockley, Evening Standard“A brilliant and definitive biography”—Jerry Brotton, Financial Times Weekend Magazine“Scholarly”—Laura Gascoigne, The Spectator“Superb”—Simon Wilson, RA Magazine“A fascinating and beautifully produced life of the Elizabethan miniaturist”—The Sunday Times (‘Best Recent Books’)An Apollo 'Off the Shelf' Selection (February 2019)An Arts Society 'Good Reads' Selection (Spring 2019)“A landmark scholarly biography . . . Goldring excavates the connections that let an Exeter goldsmith become an artist renowned at the courts of Europe. She has rescued a Renaissance in miniature”—Jonathan Jones, The Guardian“Nicholas Hilliard not only allows us to study the artist and his gifts. It pulses too with the vivid conviction we find in JH Plumb's study of Walpole or Claire Tomalin's of Pepys. [. . .] Everyday lives in the Elizabethan and Jacobean ages are vividly rendered here. Goldring sharpens our ability to look beyond the glossy-magazine analogs of court painting and decipher, as with TS Eliot's vignette of the poet Webster, the skull beneath the skin. She is good, too, at placing Protestant Hilliard and his family in the context of the religious wars that threatened Britain for nearly a century and ravaged Europe for more than two. [. . .] At times Goldring's book reads like an Elizabethan version of a John le Carre novel [. . .] In spite of informed and scrupulous scholarship, with the author ever distinguishing what is known from what may reasonably be inferred, the narrative is unputdownable” —Grey Gowrie, The Financial Times“Meticulous [. . .] lavishly illustrated [. . .] absorbing [. . .] a milestone in Hilliard studies” —James Hall, TLS“Elizabeth Goldring’s absorbing and well-researched historical biography of Hilliard surveys the personal and professional life of the artist, and examines the personalities behind his portraits.” —Olenka Horbatsch, British Museum Magazine“A fascinating and beautifully produced life of the Elizabethan miniaturist” —The Times (Best Books of the Year)“An outstanding archivally-based biography [. . .] this essential hardback study of Protestant England's first native-born artist, with a brilliant European reputation across the Catholic Renaissance courts (magnificently and fully illustrated in colour), acts as a profound reminder of the diplomatic power of great art” —Stephen Lloyd, Art Quarterly“The National Portrait Gallery's superb exhibition of Elizabethan miniatures closed last month but for those who missed it, Elizabeth Goldring's Nicholas Hilliard: Life of an Artist is worth the cover price for its beautiful close-up photographs alone.” —William Moore, Evening Standard (Best summer holiday reads)“[A] rich and compelling new biography”—Mathew Lyons, History Today"Goldring has unearthed each and every fact known about Hilliard (surprisingly many) and woven them into a contextualised, informative and well paced text [. . .] a superior publication [. . .] timely and scholarly" —Mike von Joel, State“This is set to be the definitive study of Nicholas Hilliard. It includes a full biography and includes a wealth of illustrations, many of the images appearing in colour for the first time. New archival research adds to the authoritative nature of the text and the quality of production is everything you could wish for – a book like this can easily be let down in that department, but this shines”—Artbookreview.net“Crisp, elegant and engaging prose [. . .] A lavish abundance of full-colour illustrations [. . .] at last, the biography that the outstanding miniaturist truly deserves” —William Aslet, Country Life“Sumptuous [. . .] the first ever full investigation of [Hilliard's] life and art, illustrated with 250 beautiful colour images. [. . .] Elizabeth Goldring has tracked down a wealth of documentation and her eye for detail, deftness of touch and elegance of style perfectly matches the exquisite works of her fascinating subject.” —Roderick Conway Morris, The Lady“This gorgeous book is a beautifully written and thoroughly researched account of Hilliard’s life and work and illustrated throughout with many images appearing in colour for the first time” —Henry Malt, The Artist “[A] rich and compelling new biography”—Mathew Lyons, History Today Winner of the 2019 Apollo Book of the Year Award, sponsored by Apollo: The International Art MagazineShortlisted for the Richard Schlagman Art Book Award, sponsored by the Whitechapel GalleryShortlisted for the 2019 Best First Biography Prize, sponsored by Slightly Foxed MagazineShortlisted for the William M. B. Berger Prize for British Art History"This is a book I have long been waiting for, the first fully documented biography of Nicholas Hilliard setting him within the political, social and cultural worlds of his age. It will long remain the definitive work."—Roy Strong
£36.00
Yale University Press Gauguin
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Visually luxurious.”—Holland Cotter, New York Times Book Review“Visually luxurious . . . a persuasive reminder—those colors!—of what made Gauguin the modernist pioneer he was, and the contemporary star he is. . . . Very readable essays all touch on the ethical reservations that are now forever attached to his body of work . . . [while] the reproductions stand as proof that at least some of his art is still, more than a century on, stop-and-stare beautiful, and in ways that no other art is.”—Holland Cotter, New York Times Book Review“This book is the first in-depth investigation of Gauguin’s portraits, revealing how the artist revolutionised the genre.”—Intelligent Magazine
£28.50
Yale University Press Danish Golden Age Painting
Book SynopsisA vibrant survey of visual culture in Golden Age Denmark (1801-1864).
£36.00
Yale University Press Hung Liu
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£38.25
Yale University Press The Elizabethan Image
Book SynopsisThe new paperback edition of Roy Strong's popular introduction to Elizabethan portraiture.Trade Review“Britain’s great Renaissance man – in the sense both that the Renaissance is his period, and that he can turn his hand to anything – appears as spring-chickenish as he is inexhaustible. His 43rd book, The Elizabethan Image, is published this month, and its sequel, The Stuart Image, is already being written – Hannah Betts, Telegraph“There is no better person to introduce this period afresh and to convey its richness and complexity, with the aid of the magnificent illustrations that run through this book” —Frances Spalding, Daily Mail (Book of the Week)“[A] lavish production [. . .] Strong has always had an instinctive feel for, and understanding of, the Elizabethan mindset and aesthetic. This book is no exception — and is particularly good on the ways in which the upwardly mobile used portraiture to signal their social ascent. Learned yet accessible, The Elizabethan Image provides a rich overview of the portraiture of the period which will appeal to fans of Strong's original publications as well as to a new generation of readers” — Elizabeth Goldring, Spectator “Engaging overview, in portraiture, of a rich period of English history.” —The Bookseller “Strong returns to his specialist subject in this sumptuously illustrated book” —Apollo Magazine (Off The Shelf)“An account rich in biographical detail”— Matthew Dennison, World of Interiors“When an academic with such a distinguished track record as Roy Strong's publishes a new work in the field to which he has already contributed so much, it is an important event –particularly when the publisher also has a history of producing sumptuously illustrated books. Indeed, the result is a book delightful both to read and to look at, in which text and image support one another in an ideal manner” —Paul Flux, Albion “Thorough, but never exhausting, this is an authoritative and comprehensive interpretation that provides a wealth of historical insight as well as artistic vision and presentation” — Henry Malt, The Artist “While many of Strong’s previous publications were beautiful artefacts, this one surpasses them all” — Helen Hackett, TLS“[Strong] returns to his first love, revealing that he has kept up with all the developments in modern scholarship. The result is a sumptuous, beautifully illustrated volume [. . .] A book to treasure” —A.N.Wilson, Spectator (Books Of The Year)“This beautiful book opens up to a wide audience a world of emblem and allegory, political manoeuvrings and religious conflict, serpents, sea monsters, and armillary spheres [. . .] In The Elizabethan Image Strong integrates a lifetime’s work with a synthesis of recent research by others, and the book will serve as an essential introduction to Elizabethan portraiture for many years to come”—Juliet Carey, Apollo MagazineCHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles, 2020
£27.08
Yale University Press Lucian Freud
Book SynopsisBrings together, for the first time, Lucian Freud's oil on copper paintings, including his lost portrait of Francis Bacon and two works that have never been reproduced before.
£28.50
Art Institute of Chicago Ellsworth Kelly
Book SynopsisAn eye-opening presentation of largely unknown figurative drawings by a renowned pioneer of abstraction
£36.00
Little, Brown & Company Underwater Dogs
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£21.60
Little, Brown & Company Underwater Babies
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£17.85
Thames & Hudson Ltd James Hall on The SelfPortrait
Book SynopsisExcerpts from art critic, historian, lecturer and broadcaster James Hall's lively and comprehensive cultural history of self-portraiture, including such artists as Dürer, Gentileschi, Van Gogh and Kahlo. 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 The SelfPortrait
Book SynopsisOffering a rich and lively history, this is an essential read for all those interested in this most enduringly popular and humane of art forms.Trade Review'Wide-ranging, richly researched and evocatively illustrated … It is as varied, revelatory and idiosyncratic as the genre which it takes as its subject' - The Times'Fascinating, erudite and beautifully produced' - Sunday Times'Enthralling … Scattering insights on all sides, Hall’s narrative advances through the centuries with masterly vigour' - Observer'Stimulating … Hall writes with energetic freshness … a highly engaged book that raises many questions about this intriguing and still-active genre. It deserves to be widely read' - Literary Review'Spirited … the book’s readability and the depth of research give it an engaging pace that makes it especially refreshing' - The Art Newspaper'There is never a dull passage in this book ... Hall manages to retain the intellectual high ground while writing with verve and enthusiasm ' - Frances Spalding, Guardian'Lively ... Hall's range of reference is polymathic and his writing often pithy' - Daily Telegraph'A stimulating and demanding book that requires an equally serious engagement from any reader ... There's no questioning the scholarship that lies behind this book' - The Spectator'Hall's boundless curiosity explodes in all directions from the relatively few pages he has been allocated. Mostly we want more: more detail, more explanation and many more pictures. Given that this is a chunky and well-illustrated volume, that is meant as high praise' - Andrew Marr, New Statesman'Hall's writing is not only accessible for a general audience, but filled with notable insights, including spicy, prurient ones' - The Daily Beast'A graceful, sure-footed exposition, both authoritative and entertaining, of a long thread in cultural history ... I was hooked' - Carcassone'A textured biography of the genre, where familiar works cohabit easily with esoteric ones, veined by richly-detailed, penetrating observations' - Sunday Business Post'Exceptionally rich in detail' - Good Book Guide'Detailed and informative ... a serious and scholarly work that nevertheless retains the reader's interest and attention and is generously and thoughtfully illustrated' - Art Book Review'Beautifully designed ... (Hall) delivers original and engaging interpretations' - RA MagazineTable of ContentsIntroduction • Prelude: Self-Portraiture in Antiquity • 1. Medieval Origins • 2. A Craze for Mirrors • 3. The Artist in Society • 4. The Renaissance Artist as Hero • 5. Mock- Heroic Self-Portraits • 6. The Artist’s Studio • 7. At the Crossroads • 8. Coming Home: Into the Nineteenth Century • 9. Sex and Genius • 10. Beyond the Face: Modern and Contemporary Self-Portraits
£18.00
Thames & Hudson Ltd The SelfPortrait
Book SynopsisA lively introduction to self-portraiture, reflecting on the work of over sixty artists from the Renaissance to the present day.Trade Review'A wonderfully informative, insightful and lively history of the self portrait, taking us on a fascinating journey from the Renaissance to the most adventurous artists of today' - Ralph Rugoff, Director, Hayward GalleryTable of ContentsIntroduction • 1. From Cameo to Centre Stage • 2. Studio Life • 3. Windows to the Soul • 4. Up Close and Personal • 5. Performing Identities • 6. Traces
£9.89
Thames & Hudson Ltd Vincents Portraits Paintings and Drawings by Van
Book SynopsisDespite his posthumous fame as a painter of flowers, still-lifes, gardens, landscapes and city scenes, during his lifetime Vincent van Gogh believed that his portraits constituted his most important works. Although as an artist he was touched by so many different things', he was nevertheless committed to the art of portraiture a quality that distinguished him from his contemporaries. Van Gogh was passionate in his avoidance of bland, photographic resemblances, in the hope of capturing the essential character of his models by means of expressive colour and brushwork. Showcasing a dramatic set of portraits created during Van Gogh's ten-year career, this book reflects the strong visual impact with which the artist captured the diversity of contemporary life. In his many portraits, we can discern the artist's desire to record expressively a number of themes, from the plight of the agricultural workers in his native Brabant and the destitution of prostitutes and their children in urban Europe, to the lives of his cosmopolitan acquaintances in Paris, including café owners and art dealers. It was here that he began his remarkable sequence of self-portraits. With reference to Van Gogh's extensive correspondence, Skea elaborates how the artist perceived his chosen subjects as would a writer, and how he felt that his portraits should somehow evoke what he considered to be the spiritual underpinning of human existenceTrade Review'Sheds new light on Vincent Van Gogh's paintings and his enigmatic personality' - The Courier (Dundee)Table of ContentsIntroduction: ‘And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter…’ • 1. The Netherlands • 2. Paris • 3. Arles • 4. Saint-Rémy de Provence • 5. Auvers-sur-Oise • Sources of Quotations, Further Reading
£13.49
University of California Press Cezannes Other
Book SynopsisIn the voluminous scholarship that's been written on Paul Cezanne, little has been said about the 24 portraits in oil that Cezanne made of his wife, Hortense Fiquet Cezanne, over an extended twenty-year period. This title focuses on these paintings as a group and looks at the differences that render many of them unrecognizable as the same person.Trade Review"This rich substantial reading raises Cezanne studies to a new level... Highly recommended." Choice "[Sidlauskas's] eloquent and penetrating visual analyses are a pleasure to read... [An] impressive and important book." Women's Art Journal "Sidlauskas's observations are detailed, sensitive and sometimes truly poetic." -- Karsten Schubert Burlington MagazineTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Seeing Cezanne 1. The Counter-Muse A Brief History 2. The Color of Emotion 3. The Materiality of Vision 4. Toward an Ideal Dissolving Difference Conclusion: The Woman in Question Appendix: Paintings of Hortense Fiquet Cezanne Notes Bibliography List of Illustrations Index
£56.80
University of California Press Contemplating the Ancients
£39.74
University of California Press Contemplating the Ancients
£80.00
Random House USA Inc Original Sisters
Book SynopsisFrom the internationally acclaimed artist, a stunning collection of portraits of ground-breaking women—Joan of Arc, Josephine Baker, Greta Thunberg, Misty Copeland, and many more history-making women whose names have been forgotten and are finally being brought to light. • With a Foreword by Roxane Gay. “This book, as a whole, offers the reader possibility and promise … You will be introduced to many of these women for the first time, because history is rarely kind to women until it is forced to be. You will learn about artists and activists, rulers and rebels.” —Roxane Gay, from the Foreword Original Sisters was born from the COVID-19 quarantine. In early March 2020, locked down in her home-studio in Toronto and longing for inspiration, artist Anita Kunz started researching women on the Internet. She wasn’t sure what she was looking for, but she soon found an array of astonishing people who had done amazing things—some of whom she had heard of, but most of whom she had not. And then she began to paint their pictures and write down their stories. The result is a jaw-dropping feat of historic and artistic research. The wide variety of lives, occupations, time periods, and achievements is absolutely mind-bending. From Joan of Arc to Josephine Baker, from Hippolyta to Greta Thunberg, from Anne Frank to Misty Copeland: these women made and changed history. But there are just as many whom you’ve never heard of, who were never recognized in their lifetimes, whose achievements need to be brought to light. They include the anti-Nazi activist Sophie Scholl, who was executed at age twenty-one by the Third Reich, and Alice Ball, a young African American scientist who discovered a treatment for leprosy but died tragically before she could receive credit for it. This is not only a breathtaking art book. Original Sisters also recounts a secret history that must be told so that it is a secret no more.
£28.50
Marquand Books Inc American Encounters
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£409.53
Penguin Books Ltd The Face of Britain
Book SynopsisSimon Schama brings Britain to life through its portraits, as seen in the five-part BBC series The Face of Britain and the major National Portrait Gallery exhibitionChurchill and his painter locked in a struggle of stares and glares; Gainsborough watching his daughters run after a butterfly; a black Othello in the nineteenth century; the poet-artist Rossetti trying to capture on canvas what he couldn''t possess in life; a surgeon-artist making studies of wounded faces brought in from the Battle of the Somme; a naked John Lennon five hours before his death.In the age of the hasty glance and the selfie, Simon Schama has written a tour de force about the long exchange of looks from which British portraits have been made over the centuries: images of the modest and the mighty; of friends and lovers; heroes and working people. Each of them - the image-maker, the subject, and the rest of us who get to look at them - are brought unforgettably to life. TogetherTrade ReviewSchama's greatest gift is a sure eye for an extraordinary story...This isn't what you get from conventional historians or conventional art writers, more's the pity...Schama has written books which will still be bought and talked about a century from now and he hasn't lost an ounce of zest or intelligence. Damn him... -- Andrew Marr * Prospect *He knows the history, the biography, and the art history...he made me look and learn. He is a great storyteller and we learn something new on every page. -- A S Byatt * New Statesman *All of these lives rendered with an acuity of detail that could rival the best of portraitists ... describing Lawrence's portrait of Wilberforce, Schama calls the painting a work of "transforming empathy". That phrase could be true of his storytelling throughout this book. -- Ekow Eshun * The Independent *Simon Schama's richly illustrated history of Britain in portraits is a work of dazzling panache ... a book to devour. -- John Carey * Sunday Times *He has animated our portraits superlatively. One of our most in-demand public intellectuals has deftly ventriloquised his talking heads. -- Stephen Smith * Evening Standard *Wonderfully compelling ... what this book, full of unhackneyed paintings and unfamiliar stories, shows is that when Schama is at his best he can see straight through people. -- Michael Prodger * The Times *Rich in its variety of subjects ... poignantly memorable -- Martin Gayford * Telegraph *Some of the best writing on British portraiture I have read. -- Bendor Grosvenor * Financial Times *He is both an inspired communicator of detail and context, an excitable and exciting critic and a sleeve-tugging gossip. The idea of portraiture is a perfect vehicle for his detailed imagination...the subjects of the portraits become uncannily alive. -- Tim Adams * The Observer *Viewers of his TV shows know what a passionate presenter of his subject - art history - Simon Schama is. He button-holes your eye on his inward voyage of imagination. He does it as compulsively on the page as on screen ... I welcome back in this book history as people - people whose characters can be read in their fascinating faces. -- Peter Lewis * Daily Mail *Inspiring ... Schama tells it with panache, weaving facts and anecdotes into a vivid history. * Observer on 'The Story of the Jews' *Schama has a masterly ability to conjure up character and vivify conflict * Financial Times on 'A History of Britain' *With Schama you look at a picture and see it as you hadn't before * Telegraph on 'Rembrandt's Eyes' *Splendid, spirited, immensely enjoyable and wide-ranging * Financial Times on 'The Story of the Jews' *Shows Schama at his best . . . as full of memorable incident as a Bellow novel and wittier than a Woody Allen movie * The Times on 'The Story of the Jews' *Schama writes with grace and wit, and his enthusiasms are contagious * Anita Brookner on 'The Embarrassment of Riches' *Dazzling, beyond praise * Sunday Times on 'Citizens' *Splendid... seething with ideas. Schama brings great intimacy and authority to proceedings * New York Times Book Review *
£16.14
Princeton University Press Black Out
Book Synopsis"National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. in association with Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford".Trade Review"In the catalog Ms. Naeem gives this form's democratic range a place in the progressive pantheon."---Edward Rothstein, Wall Street Journal"Black Out . . . does the interesting work of considering the history and meaning of the evocative and possibly insidious outlined form. . . . [I]t is the older images that stand out as the most interesting. Less familiar to a majority of readers, the historical context of their creation is particularly rich. . . . In the end, it is the silhouette’s many oppositions and ambiguities that make it so compelling."---Hannah Stamler, Brooklyn Rail"Readers will come away with a refreshed appreciation of silhouettes, both their significance historically but also their influence on today's artists whose art compels viewers to reflect on identity and its portrayal through time."---Nancy B. Turner, Library Journal"The catalogue of a 2018–19 exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, [Black Out] examines an overlooked art form particularly popular in the first part of the 19th century, before the advent of photography. . . . There are 98 excellent pictures, a few in full color, plus pictures of tracing machines. The catalogue proper includes 49 examples, all carefully described. Including notes to sources with commentaries, this volume should become the standard reference on the subject." * Choice *"Presenting the distinctly American story behind the silhouettes in the exhibition, Black Out vividly delves into the historical roots and contemporary interpretations of this evocative, ever popular form of portraiture."---Peter Bower, British Paper Historians Journal"The book’s strength is that it speaks to the lives of those without power. For this reason, I highly recommend it."---Amy Ione, Leonardo Reviews
£32.30
Princeton University Press 1898
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Manchester University Press Representations of Renaissance monarchy
Book SynopsisRepresentations of Renaissance monarchy analyses the portraits and personal imagery of Francis I, one of the most frequently portrayed rulers of sixteenth-century Europe. The distinctive likeness of the Valois king was widely disseminated and perceived by his French subjects, and Tudor and Habsburg rivals abroad. Complementing studies on the representation of Henry VIII, this book makes a dynamic contribution to scholarship on the enterprise of royal image-making in early-modern Europe. The discussion not only highlights the inventiveness of the visual arts in Renaissance France but also alludes to the enduring politics of physical appearance and seductive power of the face and body in modern visual culture. Coinciding with the five hundredth anniversary of Francis I''s accession, this book will appeal to scholars and students of medieval and Renaissance art, the history of portraiture or anyone interested in images of monarchy and the history of France.Trade Review‘Representations of Renaissance monarchy is a welcome contribution to French Renaissance and European court studies. Mansfield’s writing is engaging and lucid, making the book a readily accessible resource for students of all levels in the disciplines of both history and art history, particularly those studying the French court. The book is impressively researched and the extensive footnotes and bibliography will be a valuable tool for students and specialists alike.’Lisa Anderson, The Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. XLIX, No. 2 (Summer 2018) -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Profiling the Valois prince2. Face-to-face with the king3. The king's fantastical body4. Rethinking the representation and reception of Francis I's portraitsConclusion Index
£76.50
Manchester University Press The Face of the City Civic Portraiture and Civic
Book SynopsisThis pioneering and unprecedented study shows how portraits of civic officials (mayors, aldremen, college and school masters and civic benefactors) articulated civic values in post-Reformation England. It also explores English portraiture, patrons and painters before the full reception of new-classical styles associated with the Renaissance.Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1. The formation of English portrait traditions2. The evidence: Patrons and venues3. Painters 4. Timing and circumstances5. Content and meaning6. Audience and display7. ConclusionAppendicesA. Civic portraits painted or acquired, 1500–1640B. The cost of paintings, 1500–1640BibliographyIndex
£18.88
Manchester University Press Goddesses and Queens
Book SynopsisGoddesses and Queens: The Iconography of Elizabeth I is a collection of essays which explores the ways in which the rich and varied image of the queen was developed and negotiated by Elizabeth and her contemporaries, in portraits as well as a range of other printed texts. -- .Table of ContentsList of illustrations/Acknowledgements/Notes on contributorsIntroduction I A world in crisis: Elizabeth’s iconography and religious tensions1 Elizabeth I as Deborah the Judge: exceptional women of power - Carol Blessing 2 Warlike mates? Queen Elizabeth, and Joan La Pucelle in 1 Henry VI - Ben Spiller3 ‘Rudenesse it selfe she doth refine’: Queen Elizabeth I as Lady Alchymia - Jayne Elisabeth Archer II Virginia and the Virgin: Elizabeth and the New World4 Elizabeth I: size matters - Deanne Williams 5 ‘And in their midst a sun’: Petrarch’s Triumphs and the Elizabethan icon - Heather Campbell 6 ‘Nature without labor’: Virgin Queen and virgin land in Sir Walter Ralegh’s The Discoverie of the Large, Rich and Bewtiful Empyre of Guiana - Helen J. Burgess III The Old World and the New: classical precedents7 The dark side of the moon: Semiramis and Titania - Lisa Hopkins 8 Evaluating virginity: A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the iconography of marriage - Annaliese Connolly 9 Cynthia waning: Cynthia’s Revels imagines the death of the queen - Matthew Steggle IV Coda: Elizabeth’s afterlife10 ‘Turn thy Tombe into a Throne’: Elizabeth I’s death rehearsal - Scott L. NewstokIndex
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Lexington Books Picturing Thoreau Henry David Thoreau in American
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewSullivan is incisive about how and why people portrayed Thoreau and the uses they made of those images. . . .It is an enjoyable and informative book, one that both provides solid information on many images as well as challenges us to respond to Sullivan’s interpretation of them. * Resources for American Literary Study *Sullivan is the first art historian to study Thoreau’s changing reputation over the years. . . .Sullivan organizes his study chronologically, using images of Thoreau made during his lifetime, friends’ depictions of his appearance, and a useful checklist of known portraits of Thoreau from 1854 to 2013. * American Literature *Gathered in one volume, this selection of portraits of Thoreau, especially those done from life with Thoreau’s collaboration, is a useful compendium. * New England Quarterly *What [the author] set out to do, and he does it well, is to present Thoreau as a pivotal and seminal figure who, like Abraham Lincoln, came to be portrayed in paintings, prints, photographs, and cartoons, as a symbol and reflection of the ideological or political point the artist supported.... Sullivan has done an excellent job in examining our icons and heroes in just the way we need to do in contemporary American Cultural Studies. * Journal of American Culture *Playful, rumpled, hostile, haunted, heroic: in this rich and surprising history, Mark Sullivan has combed through a vast archive of images to show how America has imagined Henry D. Thoreau from his day to our own—from idealistic poet, to craggy rebel, to ancient prophet. Using images drawn from children’s literature and high art, cartoons, murals, sculptures, and more, Sullivan’s cavalcade of Henrys down through nearly two centuries reveals how Thoreau has long been a figure good to think with—both an index to a changing national mood—and a provocation to keep on imagining who we are today, and who we might become.—Laura Dassow Walls, University of Notre Dame -- Laura Dassow Walls, William P. and Hazel B. White Professor of English, University of Notre DameFrom the mirror of the daguerreotype, to a myriad of sketches and sculptures, to the vilified 1967 U.S. postage stamp, Mark Sullivan gives an in-depth look at images of this iconic figure by the few artists who knew him and the many who didn’t, showing that who we see when we see Thoreau differs dramatically from age to age and from artist to artist. A needed and long-overdue portrait of the artist.—Jeffrey S. Cramer, editor of The Portable Thoreau and Walden: A Fully-Annotated Edition -- Jeffrey S. Cramer, editor of The Portable Thoreau and Walden: A Fully-Annotated EditionMark Sullivan provides a timely and comprehensive overview of the various visual representations of Thoreau’s likeness since 1854. Picturing Thoreau: Henry David Thoreau in American Visual Culture charts interesting new ground in Thoreau studies; it locates the author’s fame within popular culture and redraws his characterization as a symbolic champion of the environment, and of American individualism. Thoreau’s name and face, Sullivan demonstrates, have not always been in a manner consistent with the author’s original intent, and have been used to support causes as diverse as American isolationism, the American Civil Rights Movement, environmentalism, the Restoration movement’s belief in the therapeutic impact of walking, and even the recent Occupy Wall Street movement. The book includes a very useful and extensive checklist of Thoreau images dating from 1854 to the present.—Joy Sperling, Denison University -- Joy Sperling, Denison UniversityTable of ContentsTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: Images of Thoreau from His Own Lifetime (1817–1862) Chapter Two: Thoreau’s Memory Kept Alive by a Few Friends (1862–1917) Chapter Three: Thoreau Starts his Rise to Prominence (1917–1939) Chapter Four: Thoreau Takes Center Stage (1940–1967) Chapter Five: Multiple Visions of Thoreau (1968–Present) Epilogue Appendix A: Checklist of Thoreau Images (1854–2013) Appendix B: Timeline of Key Events in the Development of Thoreau’s Reputation Bibliography Illustration Credits About the Author
£83.70
Hachette Children's Group Selfie The Changing Face of Self Portraits
Book Synopsis''Selfies'' are everywhere - from Kim Kardashian, queen of the selfie, to the Queen of England photobombing the Australian hockey team''s selfie in 2014, you can''t open a newspaper, or visit a news website, without seeing one. Recent technology, such as the selfie stick, and camera phones, have helped make the selfie a global trend, so you would be forgiven for thinking that this is a modern trend. But in fact, the first known selfies date from about 40,000 years ago and are hand stencils, discovered on a cave wall in Indonesia. Produced in conjunction with the Art Archive, Selfie charts the progress and the development of the self portrait, from Indonesian caves, through famous self-portrait artists such as Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso and the invention of the camera, to iconic modern selfies such as the 2014 Oscar photograph. It looks at trends, techniques and the tales behind some famous self portraits - do you know why Van Gogh was driven to cut off
£9.09
Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc Customize Your CrossStitch Friends and Family
Book SynopsisMake your very own personalized cross-stitch pieces by combining these “ready-to-go” patterns with the included tips and tricks for customization.Customize Your Cross-Stitch: Friends and Family by Lizzy Dabczynski-Bean and the team at Stitch People is the perfect how-to guide, whether you are an experienced cross-stitcher who wants to create personalized pieces or a beginner who has never before held a needle and thread. This helpful guide introduces you to the basics of the craft with easy-to-follow written directions and photographic instructions. You can learn everything from using the tools of the trade to reading a pattern, creating basic stitches, and tweaking an already-existing design. The beautiful, modern designs in this book are accompanied by simple instructions appropriate for all skill levels. The easy-to-follow lessons—complete with patterns, detailed instructions, and Trade Review“Readers will adore this.” * Publishers Weekly *"Simply stated, Customize Your Cross-Stitch: Friends & Family by needlecraft expert Lizzy Dabczynski-Bean is fun, informatively instructive, and a highly prized pick." * Midwest Book Review *Table of ContentsWelcome! About the Book Tools & Materials Preparing to Stitch How to Cross-Stitch Other Stitching Techniques Customize Your Cross-Stitch Patterns Family Night In, Baby Announcement, A Happy Home, Yoga Class, Road Trip Grandparent Appreciation Scenes, Grandparent Appreciation Individuals Coffee Break, Wintertime Fun, Springtime Fun, Summertime Fun, Autumn Fun Finishing a Portrait in a Hoop Resources About Stitch People & the Author Stitchers
£15.29
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Contemporary Cape Cod Artists
Book SynopsisThis book features 45 Cape Cod artists working in abstraction, displaying more than 400 images of their work. Based on her interviews with the artists, the author writes about their aspirations and approaches. The art, which include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and prints, show a range of approaches to abstraction, from those that include an interpreted element of the real world to others that are completely non-objective. Learn about the artists' lives, their inspirations, how they proceeded on the path to abstraction, and the ideas behind their works. Abstraction's place in art history is explored, as well as its relationships to other movements. The narrative gives insight into the creative talents of the artists and provides an understanding of abstract art in relationship to the world art scene.
£43.99
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Contemporary Cape Cod Artists People and Places
Book SynopsisThis book features 45 Cape Cod artists working in abstraction, displaying more than 400 images of their work. Based on her interviews with the artists, the author writes about their aspirations and approaches. The art, which include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and prints, show a range of approaches to abstraction, from those that include an interpreted element of the real world to others that are completely non-objective. Learn about the artists' lives, their inspirations, how they proceeded on the path to abstraction, and the ideas behind their works. Abstraction's place in art history is explored, as well as its relationships to other movements. The narrative gives insight into the creative talents of the artists and provides an understanding of abstract art in relationship to the world art scene.
£43.99
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Contemporary Cape Cod Artists On Abstraction 3
Book SynopsisThis book features 45 Cape Cod artists working in abstraction, displaying more than 400 images of their work. Based on her interviews with the artists, the author writes about their aspirations and approaches. The art, which include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and prints, show a range of approaches to abstraction, from those that include an interpreted element of the real world to others that are completely non-objective. Learn about the artists' lives, their inspirations, how they proceeded on the path to abstraction, and the ideas behind their works. Abstraction's place in art history is explored, as well as its relationships to other movements. The narrative gives insight into the creative talents of the artists and provides an understanding of abstract art in relationship to the world art scene.
£43.99
MY - University of Toronto Press Medici Women Portraits of Power Love and
Book SynopsisLavishly illustrated, Medici Women: Portraits of Power, Love and Betrayal in the Court of Duke Cosimo I is an indispensable work for anyone with a passion for Italian renaissance history, art, and court culture.Table of ContentsLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Introduction * Bloodlines: Portraits of Maria Salviati de' Medici by Bronzino and Pontormo * Declarations of Dynasty: The State Portrait of Eleonora di Toledo * 'These tender and well-born plants': Young Daughters and Wards of Cosimo and Eleonora * A 'Medici' Papacy and a Counter-Reformation in Portraiture: Allori's Giulia d'Alessandro de' Medici * The New Medicean Cosmos: Lucrezia de' Medici, Duchess of Ferrara * Damnatio Memoriae: Isabella de' Medici Orsini, 'La stella di casa Medici' * Up Close and Personal: Patronage and the Miniature Eleonora ('Dianora') di Toledo de' Medici Epilogue APPENDICES TERMINOLOGY AND ABBREVIATIONS NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY PHOTOGRAPH CREDITS INDEX
£33.30
Random House USA Inc Portraits of Courage A Commander in Chiefs
Book Synopsis#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A vibrant collection of oil paintings and stories by President George W. Bush honoring the sacrifice and courage of America’s military veterans. With Forewords by former First Lady Laura Bush and General Peter Pace, 16th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Growing out of President Bush’s own outreach and the ongoing work of the George W. Bush Institute's Military Service Initiative, Portraits of Courage brings together sixty-six full-color portraits and a four-panel mural painted by President Bush of members of the United States military who have served our nation with honor since 9/11—and whom he has come to know personally. Our men and women in uniform have faced down enemies, liberated millions, and in doing so showed the true compassion of our nation. Often, they return home with injuries—both visible and invisible—that intensify the
£27.00
Random House USA Inc Portraits of Courage Deluxe Signed Edition A
Book SynopsisA deluxe, signed edition of President George W. Bush’s collection of oil paintings and stories honoring the sacrifice and courage of America’s military veterans. With Forewords by former First Lady Laura Bush and General Peter Pace, 16th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Growing out of President Bush’s own outreach and the ongoing work of the George W. Bush Institute's Military Service Initiative, Portraits of Courage brings together sixty-six full-color portraits and a four-panel mural painted by President Bush of members of the United States military who have served our nation with honor since 9/11—and whom he has come to know personally. This deluxe, oversized edition of the book is signed by the President and cloth-bound with a specially designed slipcover. Our men and women in uniform have faced down enemies, liberated millions, and in doing so showed the true compassion of our nation. Often
£202.50
Trillium Lustron Stories Trillium Books
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Trillium Lustron Stories Trillium Books
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£23.96
Taylor & Francis Inc Emma Hamilton and Late EighteenthCentury European
Book SynopsisThis book offers a renewed look at Emma Hamilton, the eighteenth-century celebrity who was depicted by many major artists, including Angelica Kauffman, George Romney, and Ãlisabeth VigÃe-Le Brun. Adopting an art historical and feminist lens, Ersy Contogouris analyzes works of art in which Hamilton appears, her performances, and writings by her contemporaries to establish her impact on this pivotal moment in European history and art. This pioneering volume shows that Hamilton did not attempt to present a coherent or polished identity, and argues instead that she was a kaleidoscope of different selves through which she both expressed herself and presented to others what they wanted to see. She was resilient, effectively asserted her agency, and was a powerful inspiration for generations of artists and women in their own search for expression and self-actualization.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Emma Hamilton, the Most Extraordinary Compound Ever Beheld; 1. La vie de Lady Hamilton est un roman; 2. The Acme of Sir William’s Delights; 3. Emma’s Attitudes: Movements and Surprising Transformations; 4. Emma's Tarantella; 5. Model, Muse, and Artist; Conclusion
£128.25
Rizzoli International Publications Elizabeth Peyton Dark Incandescence
Book SynopsisThis beautiful volume focuses on a five-year period in Elizabeth Peyton’s evolving career to suggest not only a visual chronicle of an age, its heroes, heroines, and interests, but also of an individual’s life—that of Peyton herself. Elizabeth Peyton’s work has been renowned since the early 1990s, when she began exhibiting her paintings and drawings of artists, musicians, historical figures, and friends. This new volume, prepared by the artist in collaboration with designer Brendan Dugan, founder of Karma bookstore and gallery, presents a concentrated view of a period bookended by two exhibitions in Brussels, one in 2009 and the second in 2014, a time of introspection, and the development of a more personal painterly language. This phase of Peyton’s work is about a new realism and a considered situating of her interests and passions in relation to her own working practice. We see her range expand to take in lush still li
£51.39
Rizzoli Ashley Longshore I Do Not Cook I Do Not Clean I
Book SynopsisNew Orleans-based self-taught pop artist Ashley Longshore, known for her bold fashionista portraits and larger-than-life personality, has a massive art-cult following. I Do Not Cook, I Do Not Clean, I Do Not Fly Commercial highlights Ashley's colorful life story and showcases her bejeweled vibrant pop art.Ashley Longshore delivers exactly what her fans are clamoring for: a look at Ashley's big life, her audacious aphorisms, and of course her sumptuous, glittering art in sublime detail. Ashley Longshore's pop-art paintings are always daring; her art makes noise. On any given day, you may catch her in her New Orleans gallery painting with Blake Lively, talking art and fashion with Dapper Dan in New York, or on a remote island in Hawaii painting.A prolific artist, she has been compared to Andy Warhol for her passion with pop-culture figures; but it's her infectious personality and humorous real talk that has captured the hearts of and inspired her devoted fanTrade Review"The New Orleans-based, self-taught pop artist Ashley Longshore is known for so much more than her bold fashion portraits—this book also captures her larger-than-life personality. With contributors like Linda Fargo, Blake Lively, Diane von Furstenberg and Tommy Hilfiger, it's the perfect gift for your fashion-obsessed sister." —PUREWOW.COM
£30.36
North Star Press of Saint Cloud Inc Hello Little One
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£12.56
Museum of Fine Arts,Boston Fashioned by Sargent
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£48.75
Getty Trust Publications Faces of Power and Piety BIBLIOTHECA PAEDIATRICA
Book SynopsisPart of the Medieval Imagination series, this title explores portraiture in the medieval and Renaissance periods.Trade Review"Recommended as an art history resource for middle and high-school students."--SchoolArts Magazine "This is a charming book, accessible to readers of all ages, whether for the pictures alone or the wonderful stories told through them."--The Bloomsbury Review Recommended as an art history resource for middle and high-school students. SchoolArts Magazine" This is a charming book, accessible to readers of all ages, whether for the pictures alone or the wonderful stories told through them. The Bloomsbury Review" Recommended as an art history resource for middle and high-school students. "SchoolArts Magazine" """ This is a charming book, accessible to readers of all ages, whether for the pictures alone or the wonderful stories told through them. "The Bloomsbury Review" """ "Recommended as an art history resource for middle and high-school students."--"SchoolArts Magazine""" "This is a charming book, accessible to readers of all ages, whether for the pictures alone or the wonderful stories told through them."--"The Bloomsbury Review"""
£16.14
