Portraits and self-portraiture in the arts Books
National Portrait Gallery London 100 Fashion Icons National Portrait Gallery 100
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D Giles Ltd British Portrait Miniatures: The Cleveland Museum
Book SynopsisThis beautifully illustrated volume showcases over 70 exquisite pieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art's internationally important collection of British portrait miniatures which range in date from the 17th to the 19th century. It features the work of leading miniaturists, including Nicholas Hilliard, Isaac Oliver, Samuel Cooper, as well as an extensive collection of miniatures by Richard Cosway, much of it shown here for the first time. Author Cory Korkow includes new research about the artists, sitters and owners of these precious miniatures. Each is accompanied by a detailed catalogue entry including notes on both the work and biographical information on the artist, as well as a dramatic full-page colour plate. Supplementary illustrations show the front and back of the miniatures to scale, which, along with numerous conservation photographs, index of artists allows this stunning collection to be studied in detail for the first time. The volume also includes an index of artists.Table of ContentsContents: Foreword; Acknowledgements; Essay; Main catalogue: entries for up to 73 objects plus up to 262 comparative images - including a front and back to scale shot of each object; Documentation; Further reading; Index of artists.
£32.00
D Giles Ltd Beyond the Face: New Perspectives on Portraiture
Book SynopsisExplores new approaches to portraying identity and the human face and figure, through works from the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery's collections and other institutions. Is there more to portraiture than eyes meeting eyes? Beyond the Face: New Perspectives on Portraiture presents sixteen essays by leading scholars who explore the subtle means by which artists - and subjects - convey a sense of identity and reveal historical context. Examining a wide range of topics, from early caricature and political vandalism of portraits to contemporary selfies and performance art, these studies challenge our traditional assumptions about portraiture. By probing the diversity and complexity of portrayal, Beyond the Face fills a gap in current scholarship and offers a resource for teaching art history, subjectivity, and the construction of identity. AUTHOR: Wendy Wick Reaves is senior curator of prints and drawings, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. SELLING POINTS: . A general guide to the portraiture genre . Introduces the reader to fresh methodologies and modern studies . Explores new approaches to portraying the human face and figure 132 colour images
£25.46
Luath Press Ltd Facing the Nation: The portraiture of Alexander
Book SynopsisIllustrated with 167 full colour images, this landmark book charts Alexander Moffat’s career from student days at Edinburgh College of Art in the 1960s to the recent Scotland’s Voices. Iconic portraits of major figures in literature and the other arts are represented. The cultural significance of the visual chronicle Moffat has created lies in his approach to portraiture. He aims not only to capture a sitter’s appearance but also to convey something of their inner character, reaching ‘a balance between emotional expression and compositional order’.Trade Review'illuminating, lavishly illustrated and long overdue retrospective of Moffat's work' -- ALAN TAYLORTable of ContentsForeword by Duncan Thomson 7 PERSONAL, PARTICULAR, PUBLICThe Portraits of Alexander Moffat 11 A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A PORTRAITIST Bill Hare in Conversation with Alexander Moffat 89 Alexander Moffat Chronology 175 List of Images 183 Acknowledgements 191
£21.25
Museyon Guides Lust, Lies and Monarchy: The Secrets Behind
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£16.14
Editions Skira Paris Thameur Mejri (Bilingual edition)
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£24.00
Bohlau Verlag Der Anzug im Porträt: Kleidung und Inszenierung
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£34.19
De Gruyter Symphonie in Schwarz: Eine Spurensuche zwischen
Book Synopsis In 1904, Saxon artist Oskar Zwintscher painted the portrait of a lady smoking a cigarette. Today, the work has cult status at the Albertinum in Dresden. Her hair loose, a burning cigarette held casually in her hand, the sitter in a black reform dress is sitting in front of a black curtain. But who is behind the young woman who looks out of the picture so confidently? Andreas Dehmer and Susanna Partsch embark on a fascinating search for clues to the identity of the lady smoking. They find emancipated women who earned their living as artists, actors or writers, preferred reform dress to the corset, and regarded smoking as a symbol of independence. They follow them to metropolises like Berlin, Dresden or Munich, where they lived as part of the bohemian scene. A captivating picture of the way art and life intertwined around 1900 emerges in this search for the unknown.
£19.95
Walter de Gruyter Die Selbstbildnissammlung der Medici 16501723
£67.15
Hatje Cantz David Byrd
Book SynopsisA poignant look into the psychological depths of the human mind—its possibilities and fragility. This is the impressive and sensitive legacy of the painter David Byrd. The artist joined the army during World War II and later worked as an orderly in the psychiatric ward of a Veterans hospital in Upstate New York. From 1958 to 1988, Byrd’s keen observation of this world, filled with the crowded histories of its troubled patients, was recorded in the artist’s sketchbook. This publication is a replica of the deeply personal, creative, and revelationary journal examining the human experience and its potential for pain and alienation on the fringe. Byrd’s work was not publicly exhibited until 2013, only a few months before his death—an omission that seems absurd in the face of such a powerful output of artwork expressing the artist’s perspective as a veteran himself and his empathy toward those living with psychological trauma.
£999.99
Hirmer Verlag Maria Theresa and the Arts
Book SynopsisThe 300th birthday of Empress Maria Theresia provides an opportunity to examine her outstanding interest in the fine arts. At the invitation of the reforming monarch a large number of painters, sculptors and other artists in Austria and abroad found a wealth of work opportunities. Correspondingly, this era has left its mark on the countries of the former Habsburg monarchy to this day. Maria Theresia pursued an individual approach with regard to cultural policy. She was interested in reform not only in education, but also in the field of art. She commissioned contemporary artists and helped portrait painting to a new upswing, leading not least to the international consolidation of the newly formed House of Habsburg-Lorraine. This was the function also fulfilled by the allegorical paintings and ceiling frescoes for which impressive cartoons have survived. Landscape painting was highly esteemed, and finally outstanding masterpieces were produced in sculpture and three-dimensional works, for example by Balthasar Ferdinand Moll and Franz Xaver Messerschmidt.
£38.00
Hirmer Verlag Eye to I: Self Portraits from 1900 to Today:
Book SynopsisThis richly illustrated book features an introduction by the National Portrait Gallery’s chief curator and nearly 150 insightful entries on key self-portraits in the museum’s collection. Eye to I provides readers with an overview of self-portraiture while revealing the intersections that exist between art, life, and self-representation. Drawing primarily from the museum’s collection, Eye to I explores how American artists have portrayed themselves over the past two centuries. The book shows that while each individual approaches self-portraiture under unique circumstances, all of their representations raise important questions about self-perception and self-reflection. Sometimes artists choose to reveal intimate details of their inner lives. Other times they use the genre to obfuscate their true selves or invent alter egos. Today, with the proliferation of selfies and the contemporary focus on identity, it is time to reassess the significance of the self-portrait.
£30.60
Hirmer Verlag GmbH Gabriele Münter: Menschenbilder
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£40.50
Kehrer Verlag Here / Still / Now
Book SynopsisD'Amato's portraits give individual faces to the ongoing crisis in African-American communities.
£28.90
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 *
£61.75
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 *
£47.50
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 *
£999.99
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
£38.00
Yale University Press Danish Golden Age Painting
Book SynopsisA vibrant survey of visual culture in Golden Age Denmark (1801-1864).
£38.00
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
£60.35
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
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
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
University of Chicago Press SpaceSightSelf
Book SynopsisThe exhibition "Space/Sight/Self" was designed to study the role of portraiture in contemporary art as a nexus of three issues - identity, vision and place. This catalogue documents the exhibition and helps to facilitate viewers' reflections and responses about the spaces, sights and selves.
£14.41
University of Nebraska Press Henry James Framed
Book SynopsisHenry James Framed is a cultural history of Henry James as a work of art, having sat for his portrait twenty-four times.Trade Review"Henry James Framed is a beautifully produced book."—Daniel A. Burr, Gay & Lesbian Review“Who knew there were so many portraits of Henry James? Henry James Framed is both an engaging catalogue of these images and a collective biography that invites us to see the artist through the eyes of some of his most visually gifted contemporaries.”—Ruth Bernard Yeazell, Sterling Professor of English at Yale University“In his sparkling Henry James Framed Michael Anesko takes us on a characteristically witty and civilized journey through James’s life and career—through the surprising number of likenesses (and unlikenesses) that were made of him between 1862 and 1914. Through brilliant detective work, we get a delightful, stimulating picture of the social and artistic world of this great novelist who was also an inveterate critic of art—and, as we learn, frequently its subject.”—Philip Horne, founding general editor of The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James series“Michael Anesko freshly and incisively illuminates Henry James’s relationships with artists, the circumstances of his sitting for portraits, the critical (and personal) reception of the finished works, and the provenance of the pieces during and after James’s life. Henry James Framed is a delight to read.”—Linda Simon, author of The Critical Reception of Henry James: Creating a Master“This useful volume provides fascinating tales of how the portraits were received privately and in public exhibitions, as well as when and how they changed hands, were sold or bequeathed. Anesko provides well-researched tracings of the histories of these works and the stories each portrait has to tell, deploying his extensive knowledge of James’s life and writings with an incisive touch.”—Tamara Follini, general editor of The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James seriesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Partial to Portraits 1. Uncanny Possession: The Queer Provenance of John La Farge’s Henry James 2. “I, Too, Am Someone Here”: The Birth of the Lion 3. “Yielding to the Bard’s Behest”: Paying Court in George Du Maurier’s Two Thrones 4. “Civilized to His Fingertips”: James’s Sargent, Sargent’s “James” 5. “Nicer than Most of Them”: John White Alexander’s Forgotten Illustration 6. In a “Cosmo de’ Medici Mood”: Larkin Goldsmith Mead’s Henry James 7. “Making Quite a Reputation”: The “Theatrical Manner” of Paul Tilton’s Henry James 8. “Dear” Henry James: Anna Lea Merritt’s Lost Portrait 9. “A Student of Taste”: Rudolf Lehmann’s “Henry James” 10. “Commendably Droll”: Philip Burne Jones Paints Henry James 11. “My Own Head on the Block”: William Rothenstein’s Portraits of Henry James 12. “The Smooth & Anxious Clerical Gentleman”: Ellen Emmet’s Henry James 13. “Won’t It Be Fun?”: Jane Erin Emmet von Glehn’s Weekend Sketch 14. “Not Positively or Richly Rejoiceful”: Hendrik Christian Andersen’s Henry James 15. “The Profile of an Eagle”: Jacques-Émile Blanche’s Henry James 16. “Too Little of the Promise”: The Favorite Nephew’s Henry James 17. An “Astonishing” Economy of Means: Cecilia Beaux’s “Henry James” 18. “A Rather ‘Important’ Piece”: Annie Louisa Swynnerton’s Henry James 19. “Difficult, Perverse, Obscure”: John Singer Sargent’s Charcoal Portrait 20. “A Very Fine Thing Indeed”: John Singer Sargent’s Henry James 21. “My Aged and Battered Mug”: Derwent Wood’s Portrait Bust 22. “Not with the Happiest Result”: Lewis Charles Powles’s Henry James Epilogue: A Case of Mistaken Identity Notes Bibliography Index
£45.00
University of Minnesota Press Unapologetic Beauty
Book SynopsisA startlingly powerful collaboration reimagines female beautyWhat is beauty without pain? Compromise is what our culture offers women: cinching, pinching, cutting, shaving, scraping, starving, and, of course, lifting and separating, all in service of one sharply circumscribed model purported to be pleasing—but not to most, if any, women. This extraordinary book reimagines beauty at its most provocative and fetishized locus: the female breast. Artist, writer, and scholar Joanna Frueh scrutinizes ideals of beauty and sensuality, often motivated by her experiences with breast cancer. Frances Murray, her friend and collaborator for more than thirty years, documents Frueh’s journey of unapologetic beauty in a series of intimate, dazzlingly original photographs before and after her bilateral mastectomy and chemotherapy. Reflecting with insight, directness, and humor—and with contributions from a breast surgeon, an oncologist, and artists and scholars who have had breast cancer—Frueh arrives at a new, liberating view of beauty and of the sensual pleasure found in transformative self-acceptance. Central to this reckoning is her documentation and critique of the notion of hyperbeauty (the flash of flesh appeal, hyperthin, hyperfeminine, hyperbosomy, hypersexy, and hyperyoung sold at the global 24/7 beauty bazaar) and her playful, inventive presentation of tools for remaking minds and hearts disfigured by self-denying ideals.In its bracing critique, passionate argument, and compelling narrative—all illustrative of its own unapologetic beauty—this collaboration is a performance of startling power, stirring to consider and a pleasure to behold.Trade Review"Unapologetic Beauty is a downright necessary meditation on women’s wisdom and beauty in aging. Joanna Frueh and Frances Murray—in writing and image—call out the fact that our ‘hyperbeauty’ culture relies on stereotypical ‘taboos’ to make individuals unique or edgy, when we must rather recognize that ‘real flesh, real love: they are the taboos.’ And the world needs more of both."—Maria Elena Buszek, University of Colorado, Denver"A wonderful, evocative depiction of a woman in all her glory."—Susan Love, author of Dr. Susan Love’s Breast Book"Joanna Frueh develops her earlier strands: body image; representation of self; relationships between image, text, and body; body work; illness and healing. Starting with friendship and creativity, she draws these themes in her work together in a powerful invocation of moving toward self-love through self-acceptance. It will always be the right time to read this, no matter the body one inhabits."—Hilary Robinson, editor of Feminism Art Theory: An Anthology 1968-2014Table of ContentsContentsAn Art of FriendshipCulture’s Breasts ICulture’s Breasts IIMy BreastsApologyHyperbeautyBeauty HeroesBeauty RedefinedThe Pleasure of Pleasing OurselvesLanguageThe 4 C’s of Creating BeautyAcknowledgmentsNotesGlossary
£19.79
Temple University Press,U.S. Pictures from a Drawer: Prison and the Art of
Book SynopsisA remarkable collection of prison "portraiture" photosTrade Review"In a stimulating introductory essay accompanying this collection of extraordinary photographic portraits, Jackson (The Story Is True) recalls visiting in 1975 Arkansas's Cummins state prison farm, where an inmate invited him to fill his pockets with about 200 discarded prisoner identification photographs, likely dating from 1915 to 1940.... Shrewdly, Jackson balances their remarkable refurbishment with a strong sense of provenance (retaining staple holes and creases, for example), while eschewing any attempt to connect each haunting image with a particular crime or narrative. Given unprecedented and (from the perspective of their original purpose) utterly unintended scope, the human dimensions of these images grant each an irreversible dignity for the first time, while simultaneously taking on the essential characteristic Jackson names: they become 'mirrors' of ourselves." —Publishers Weekly"I'm intrigued by the portraits of these prisoners. These pictures all speak to me of another time not only because of the way the people are dressed, but also because of the direct simplicity and innocence of the images. Today, when so many photographs are altered and manipulated, the honesty and reality of these images make them stand out as powerful and true portraiture for all time."—Mary Ellen MarkTable of Contents1. Pictures from a Drawer; 2. Restoring the Eyes; 3. Size; 4. Dating the Images; 5. The Women; 6. Portraits; 7. Seeing People; 8. The Order of Things; 9. Mirrors; II.; Images; Appendix: Cooter's Yellow Pad
£30.60
New Village Press Portraits of Earth Justice: Americans Who Tell
Book SynopsisFive compelling essays and fifty stunning portraits and profiles of American environmental activists This second volume in the Americans Who Tell the Truth series features Robert Shetterly's magnificent color portraits and profiles of fifty environmental and climate activists—people who diagnose the truth of the greatest crisis humanity has ever confronted and take action. The book also features original essays by revered environmentalists Bill McKibben, Leah Penniman, Diane Wilson, Bill Bigelow, and Robin Wall Kimmerer, whose words illuminate the plight and its causes, and point a way forward. Along with the genocide of Indigenous peoples and the institution of slavery, the third tragic and persistent mistake of the leaders of this country was to attempt to separate economic and political culture from the laws of nature—to operate on the basis that nature could be exploited endlessly for profit. The damage done to the Earth and to the future of life on the planet is incalculable. The people portrayed here have bought warnings, offered solutions, and organized movements to restore ecological sanity.Trade Review"Americans Who Tell the Truth offers much-needed rays of hope in times made dark by the climate crisis and deep inequality. It provides uplifting portraits, both verbal and pictorial, of courageous activists who have devoted their lives to the fight for climate justice. " -- —David M. Driesen, University Professor, Syracuse University College of Law; author, The Specter of Dictatorship"Portraits of Earth Justice illuminates the humanity of forward-thinking advocates taking critical bold actions on the challenge of our lifetime: the climate crisis. At a time when democracy and the very life support systems of humanity are threatened, let these beautiful faces and works inspire you to keep rising up, or rise up for the first time, to preserve our rights and this beautiful and sustaining planet for all of our children and future generations. " -- Julia Olson, Executive Director and Chief Legal Counsel, Our Children’s Trust"Through Robert Shetterly'ss masterful portraits of brilliant women and men activists in the work of doing justice to the soil and the plants and animals we need to nurture, and through their passionate essays imploring us to cherish instead of despoil the only Earth we have, this book empowers us. Like the words of Sandra Steingraber inscribed in her portrait, 'We are all musicians in a great human orchestra, and it is now time to play the Save the World Symphony.' " -- Peter Davis, Academy Award winning filmmaker, author of Girl of My Dreams"It is rare that you come across a book as stunningly impactful as Portraits of Earth Justice. The essays by this diverse cast of environmental protagonists are riveting and Rob Shetterly’s portraits of people who love and care for the earth are piercing in their beauty and depth of character. I can’t think of a better way to move people, particularly young people, from despair about the climate crisis to empowerment and inspiration than sharing this gift to Mother Earth that Rob Shetterly has created. " -- Medea Benjamin, author and cofounder of CODEPINK: Women for Peace
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Reaktion Books Facing China: Truth and Memory in Portraiture
Book SynopsisFacing China is an exploration of the portrait arts in China from the dynastic to the modern and contemporary, in painting, sculpture, photography and video. The book focuses on truth and memory in the portraiture process, from encounters between subject, portrait and artist, to broader familial, social and political arenas. It also examines the influence of location on portrait production, reception and display, from tombs, ancestral shrines, temples, gardens, and palace halls to public and private spaces. Featuring 150 fine illustrations, with 100 in colour, Facing China has much to say to specialists in the field as well as general readers interested in Chinese art.
£38.00
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Elizabethan Globalism: England, China and the
Book SynopsisA fascinating look at how Elizabethan England was transformed by its interactions with cultures from around the world Challenging the myth of Elizabethan England as insular and xenophobic, this revelatory study sheds light on how the nation’s growing global encounters—from the Caribbean to Asia—created an interest and curiosity in the wider world that resonated deeply throughout society. Matthew Dimmock reconstructs an extraordinary housewarming party thrown at the newly built Cecil House in London in 1602 for Elizabeth I where a stunning display of Chinese porcelain served as a physical manifestation of how global trade and diplomacy had led to a new appreciation of foreign cultures. This party was also the likely inspiration for Elizabeth’s celebrated Rainbow Portrait, an image that Dimmock describes as a carefully orchestrated vision of England’s emerging ambitions for its engagements with the rest of the world. Bringing together an eclectic variety of sources including play texts, inventories, and artifacts, this extensively researched volume presents a picture of early modern England as an outward-looking nation intoxicated by what the world had to offer.Distributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British ArtTrade Review“A compelling analysis [. . .]” It has wonderful illustrations of maps and globes, portraits, calligraphy, prints, textiles and porcelain”—Ann Hughes, Times Higher Education Supplement“A pleasure to hold and peruse: a luxury good in its own right”—Elizabeth Goldring, The Burlington Magazine
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Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Van Dyck and the Making of English Portraiture
Book SynopsisA new account of painting in early modern England centered on the art and legacy of Anthony van Dyck As a courtier, figure of fashion, and object of erotic fascination, Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641) transformed the professional identities available to English artists. By making his portrait sittings into a form of courtly spectacle, Van Dyck inspired poets and playwrights at the same time that he offended guardians of traditional hierarchies. A self-consciously Van Dyckian lineage of artists, many of them women, extends from his lifetime to the end of the eighteenth century and beyond. Recovering the often surprising responses of both writers and painters to Van Dyck’s portraits, this book provides an alternative perspective on English art’s historical self-consciousness. Built around a series of close readings of artworks and texts ranging from poems and plays to early biographies and studio gossip, it traces the reception of Van Dyck’s art on the part of artists like Mary Beale, William Hogarth, and Richard and Maria Cosway to bestow a historical specificity on the frequent claim that Van Dyck founded an English school of portraiture.Distributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
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The Burlington Press Copley and West in England 1775-1815
Book SynopsisThis beautifully and thoroughly illustrated book, which constitutes the first serious investigation of the relationship between Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley, will be of considerable interest to both British and American art historians, and appeal to art lovers from both countries. West and Copley have always and properly been viewed as the two pre-eminent eighteenth-century American artists, despite the fact that, at the age of twenty-one, West left his native shores in 1760, never to return. He went on to become immensely successful in England, becoming, among other things, the second president of the Royal Academy of Arts. Copley spent half his working life also in England. However, before making the move across the Atlantic, he made his mark as an exceptionally talented artist, who, without any real training, painted likenesses of fellow Bostonians, including ones of figures such as John Hancock and Paul Revere, that have become icons of American history. While those portraits remain his most widely admired works, after 1775 and his resettling in England, he started painting distinctly different types of pictures, initially showing modern historical subjects in emulation of the model provided him by West, following, for example, West's celebrated Death of General Wolfe, exhibited in 1771, with his own Death of the Earl of Chatham, begun in 1779. For a brief span of time, the two expatriate Americans had a close working relationship, that we can see substantially reflected in both the formal language and the subject matter of many of their best works, but it eventually and inevitably turned into rivalry. The book begins with a brief prologue discussing the earliest of West's depictions of recent historical events and of subjects set in America, painted prior to Copley's arrival in England. It then follows the year-by-year evolution of Copley's painting from 1775 to his death in 1815, with an underlying focus upon his ongoing give-and-take with West, and it ends with examination of hitherto little-known and unstudied major late paintings, from after 1800, by both artists.
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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
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Cambridge University Press The Divinization of Caesar and Augustus Precedents Consequences Implications
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Cambridge University Press The Female Portrait Statue in the Greek World
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Cambridge University Press The Art of the Actress
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Cambridge University Press Comic Acting and Portraiture in LateGeorgian and
Book SynopsisJim Davis explores the relationship between comic performance and the visual arts in England c.17801830, focussing on the influence of Hogarth and Wilkie on theatre criticism and portraiture, caricature as critique and the contribution of comic actors to notions of national identity.Table of ContentsPart I. English Comic Actors and their Representation: 1. The low comic actor; 2. Artists and comic actors; 3. Perspectives on comedy and comic acting; Part II. Humorous as a Sketch by Hogarth: 4. Comedy and caricature: Joseph Munden and Isabella Mattocks; 5. John Liston: caricaturing preachers and cockneys; 6. The low comedian as material object; 7. Caricature, degradation, persona and portraiture; 8. Paintings by George Clint; Part III. Chaste as a Picture by Wilkie: 9. Wilkie, everyday life and the theatre; 10. Acting from nature and observation; 11. John Bannister: 'the best kind of Englishman'; 12. John Emery: 'this Wilkie of Actors'; 13. Actors as artists and connoisseurs; Part IV. Alone I Did It! The Case of Charles Mathews: 14. Charles Mathews 'at home'; 15. Charles Mathews: paintings, portraits and prints; 16. The Harlow portrait of Charles Mathews.
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The University of Chicago Press Rembrandts Late Religious Portraits
Book SynopsisOne of the most fascinating aspects of Rembrandt's extraordinary artistic career is his suite of brooding half-length portraits of religious figures from the late 1650s and early 1660s. Painted during a difficult time in the artist's life - when he no longer enjoyed a ready market for his works and may have turned to his deep religious convictions for solace - these images are among the most evocative Rembrandt created. For years scholars have debated whether these paintings were intended as a series, yet until now these works have, unbelievably, never been shown together. An exhibition by the National Gallery of Art and this accompanying catalog assemble seventeen of the paintings for the first time, finally giving the powerful images their due. Many of these subtle and wondrous paintings have been identified as images of apostles and evangelists, but among them are also representations of Christ, the Virgin, and still-unidentified saints and monks. In Rembrandt's typical fashion, the
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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!
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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.
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Marquand Books Inc American Encounters
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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.
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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
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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
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Trillium Lustron Stories Trillium Books
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Trillium Lustron Stories Trillium Books
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