Portraits and self-portraiture in the arts Books
Morpheus International,U.S. About Face: The Art of Jota
Book SynopsisThis remarkable compilation brings together the best of painter Jota Leal's surreal celebrity portraits. This volume has something for anybody who is captivated by the famous and iconic figures around us. Whimsical and incisive portraits of rock stars, move stars, sports icons, and historical and cultural figures are all featured inside. Jota's amazing paintings of Salvador Dali, The Beatles, Marilyn Monroe, Jimi Hendrix, Keith Richards, Michael Jordan, Freddie Mercury, Ali, and others are at the pinnacle of contemporary portraiture. The icing on the cake is the remarkable twist that Jota imparts to each and every subject. His ability to transform the subject's face into something more elemental and evocative is a gift few have possessed. This is a book to be enjoyed over and over, and shared with friends. A pop culture delight.Trade Review"In the hands of a lesser artist, celebrity caricatures can appear garish and even grotesque -- irreverent and offensive to both the star and their fans. Jota Leal, however, has a passion and affinity for his subjects that allows him to capture their essence in a manner that is both playful and insightful." -- Brett Maly, art appraiser and The History Channel's Pawn Stars art expert
£16.99
Ruminator Books Lake Street USA
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£13.29
National Galleries of Scotland Energy: North Sea Portraits
Book SynopsisThe North Sea oil industry plays a vital role in the UK economy. Oil was first pumped ashore thirty years ago and based on current estimates there are still thirty further years of oil reserves to be claimed from the sea. This exhibition aims to capture the vibrant community of people working throughout the sector. Scottish portrait painter Fionna Carlisle will create 24 new portraits representing a cross section of the people working in the oil industry, from employees of major international corporations to the self-employed. There are portraits of geologists, rig-builders, economists, helicopter pilots, the technical and service staff on the rigs themselves, and many others - all of whom have been chosen to represent the many aspects of this vital industry.
£7.55
HarperCollins Publishers Portrait Miniatures in National Trust Houses:
Book SynopsisNumbering some 1,500 individual items and housed at over 80 historic properties across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, the collection of portrait miniatures cared for by the National Trust is considered to be one of the most significant in the world. Numbering some 1,500 individual items and housed at over 80 historic properties across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, the collection of portrait miniatures cared for by the National Trust is considered to be one of the most significant in the world. As a whole, these precious works of art represent the highest standard of artistry and provide a history of miniature painting in Britain. They range from Holbein’s 1533 portrait of A Man Holding a Pink at Upton House in Warwickshire through to Wainwright’s portrait of Evelyn Ward (1916), painted several decades after the advent of photography had begun to supersede the art of the miniature. This comprehensive catalogue, featuring every miniatures in the National Trust’s care, is being prepared in volumes, divided by region. The first volume, covering Northern Ireland, was published in July 2003. This second volume looks at miniatures from the Trust’s historic houses in the counties of Cornwall, Devon and Somerset, including those that recently came to the Trust as part of its acquisition of the magnificent Victorian mansion of Tyntesfield, south of Bristol.
£22.50
National Galleries of Scotland Face of Scotland, The: the Scottish National
Book SynopsisScotland has produced an astonishingly high number of men and women whose lives have inspired and changed the world. This book, illustrating just over forty portraits, represents only a few of them, but with Robert Burns and Walter Scott, Eric Liddell and Alex Ferguson, Bonnie Prince Charlie and Queen Victoria, it represents the flavour of the collection at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
£6.33
Other Criteria Damien Hirst: Portraits of Frank: The Wolseley
Book Synopsis"Breakfast at The Wolseley gave Damien and I the perfect opportunity to discuss the business of the day," remembers Frank Dunphy, Damien Hirst's business manager, "the bow-tied super-ego to Mr. Hirst's id," as The Wall Street Journal has described him. "Always on time, Damien would first hold out his hand for a pen or pencil and would then begin sketching on the back of his placemat." Portraits of Frankis published to coincide with Dunphy's retirement after almost 15 years with the artist. Seen here for the first time, Hirst's portraits were sketched during the pair's regular breakfast meetings at the famous Wolseley restaurant in London between 2004 and 2010. They provide a touching illustration of Frank and Damien's collaborative relationship as it unfolded over the course of some of the most extraordinary years of the artist's career.
£40.00
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
IndieBooks Fame & Faces: Portraits and Caricatures of Women
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£999.99
Sansom & Co William Coldstream: Catalogue Raisonne
Book Synopsisfirst complete catalogue raisonee and comprehensive essay of this twentieth century artist
£36.00
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
Ad Ilissum Portrait Miniatures in the Frits Lugt Collection
Book SynopsisFrits Lugt (1884–1970) had a passion for miniatures that began early on in his life. He demonstrated it in the small but ardent Le portrait-miniature of 1917, the year in which he bought the first portrait miniature for his collection. Since then it has been constantly enriched, and now numbers more than 100 works by artists from Great Britain, the Low Countries, France, Germany, Italy, Denmark and Switzerland, covering the period from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Thanks to the expertise of specialist Karen Schaffers-Bodenhausen, who has studied the growing collection in recent years with great dedication and patience, we now have this first catalogue of the portrait miniatures in the Frits Lugt Collection, Fondation Custodia, Paris. In addition to a foreword by director Ger Luijten, the first volume contains detailed descriptions and exhaustive analyses of the portraits, their attributions, and identifications of the sitters. The author also examines the techniques employed and sets out to establish a date for each portrait. The volume closes with a table of concordance, a detailed index of proper names and a comprehensive bibliography. Comparative illustrations are incorporated in the descriptions. The second volume has colour plates of all the works in the collection, almost all of them full size, and concludes with reproductions of the backs of the miniatures if they provide additional supporting information.
£66.50
Unicorn Publishing Group Mausoleum of Imperfection: The Art of Slavko
Book SynopsisMausoleum of Imperfection is a collection of picturesque and satirical portraits made by Slavko Krunić that refute the idea of separation between the observer and the work of art. Th us, it creates a certain intimacy; we feel we are the portraits’ companions and they are our fellow travellers in an imaginary life. Th e comical fantasy of these melancholy characters, who are watching us from the images, allows us to listen to their life stories whilst observing them in their immobility. Bill Gould wrote a short biography of an imaginary witness inspired by Krunic’s work. From this symbiosis arose an unusual combination of different artistic expressions, which was then shaped into Mausoleum of Imperfection.
£21.25
Karnac Books Portrait of a Life: Melanie Klein and the Artists
Book SynopsisMelanie Klein was a Viennese psychoanalyst who extended the work of Sigmund Freud in significant and innovative ways. She lived and worked in the UK from 1926 until her death in 1959. During her life she was a controversial and divisive figure and has remained so since her death; conflict between the Freudian and Kleinian strands of psychoanalysis dominated the history of psychoanalysis in the latter half of the twentieth century. The reasons why she polarised opinion are multiple and complex; partly they were related to her psychoanalytic ideas and how she expressed them but they were also intrinsic to her personality. In 2016, a pair of delicate low relief sculptures of Melanie Klein in profile were re-discovered, having been hidden away for some eighty years, and have been subsequently identified as the work of the sculptor Oscar Nemon. Roger Amos was asked to write a brief article about these sculptures for publication on the Melanie Klein Trust website. During his research, he discovered that Klein had destroyed two significant works of art depicting herself: one a bust by the same sculptor as the low relief profiles, Oscar Nemon, and the other a portrait by William Coldstream. This beautifully illustrated book is the first comprehensive review of all attempts to portray Klein during her lifetime, from her earliest childhood until her old age, including the work of painters, sculptors, and portrait photographers. It reviews the history of each artistic project and the relationship between Klein and the artist involved, locating them in a narrative of Klein’s life. The complex and interrelated reasons why she chose to destroy some of the representations of herself but kept others are identified and discussed. Through an understanding of the subject/artist relationship, Amos illuminates Klein’s professional life in the world of psychoanalysis. A must-read for all scholars and professionals working in the field of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy and psychodynamic counselling, plus those with an interest in Melanie Klein or aesthetics, this enjoyable read shines a never-before seen light on to the world of Melanie Klein.Trade ReviewRoger Amos has written and illustrated a fascinating work on the relationships between Melanie Klein and the artists who portrayed her. This book sheds important new light on her character and also on those of the photographers and artists. -- John Steiner, Treasurer of the Melanie Klein TrustIn this carefully researched and often moving book, Roger Amos brings together the worlds of portraiture and psychoanalysis. In an articulate and sympathetic way, with wonderful illustrations, the author addresses the sometimes strained relationships between the pioneering psychoanalyst Melanie Klein and the artists who tried to capture her essential qualities in their work. -- Jane Milton, Honorary Archivist, Melanie Klein TrustRoger Amos’ vivid and straightforward account of the ways in which Melanie Klein reacted to pictures of her touches on feelings we may all have about 'being seen'. -- Irma Brenman Pick, past President of the British Psychoanalytical SocietyAt the heart of Roger Amos’ work is a haunting question: Why did Melanie Klein destroy two works of art created of her, a bust by Oscar Nemon and a painting by William Coldstream? Amos addresses this question with in-depth research and an artist’s intuitive grasp of mood, tone, and emotional resonance. The reader will be rewarded with a compassionate insight into a complex personality. -- Donald Campbell, past President of the British Psychoanalytical SocietyTable of ContentsAbout the author List of Figures Introduction Chapter 1: Early Life – Childhood and Adolescence, Vienna 1882 to 1902 Chapter 2: Married Life, Budapest 1903 to 1914 Chapter 3: The Unrecorded Decade, Budapest and Berlin 1915 to 1925 Chapter 4: Middle Years – Life in London 1926 to 1950 Chapter 5: Melanie Klein and Oscar Nemon 1939 Chapter 6: Later Life in London – 1950 to 1960 Chapter 7: Melanie Klein and William Coldstream 1952 Conclusion References Index
£26.13
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
£45.00
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
£33.25
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Tudor Liveliness: Vivid Art in Post-Reformation
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking approach to the problem of realism in Tudor art In Tudor and Jacobean England, visual art was often termed “lively.” This word was used to describe the full range of visual and material culture—from portraits to funeral monuments, book illustrations to tapestry. To a modern viewer, this claim seems perplexing: what could “liveliness” have meant in a culture with seemingly little appreciation for illusionistic naturalism? And in a period supposedly characterised by fear of idolatry, how could “liveliness” have been a good thing? In this wide-ranging and innovative book, Christina Faraday excavates a uniquely Tudor model of vividness: one grounded in rhetorical techniques for creating powerful mental images for audiences. By drawing parallels with the dominant communicative framework of the day, Tudor Liveliness sheds new light on a lost mode of Tudor art criticism and appreciation, revealing how objects across a vast range of genres and contexts were taking part in the same intellectual and aesthetic conversations. By resurrecting a lost model for art theory, Faraday re-enlivens the vivid visual and material culture of Tudor and Jacobean England, recovering its original power to move, impress and delight. Distributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British ArtTrade Review“The achievement of this wonderfully illustrated and bountifully referenced book is to make us question how we should look at post-Reformation art, and to find delight in its eccentricities.”—Brett Dolman, History Today
£40.50
MACK Face to Face: Portraits of Artists by Tacita
Book SynopsisFace to Face presents a selection of portraits of artists by three of the most prominent portrait artists of our time. Bringing together the diverse and distinctive work of Tacita Dean, Brigitte Lacombe, and Catherine Opie, this book forms an investigation into the charged genre of portraiture and its various approaches, navigating tensions between intimacy and publicity. While the three artists collected here share a wide set of historical touchstones, each deploys the camera differently: Dean exploits cinema's capacity for duration; Lacombe takes her cameras out on assignment; Opie works in the tradition of the studio photograph. Often overlapping in the subjects depicted, Face to Face offers an opportunity to look closely at bracing, intimate, and resonant portraits of the seminal thinkers and makers that these artists have encountered across the fields of music, painting, photography, film, and literature, among them Hilton Als, Maya Angelou, Richard Avedon, Joan Didion, David Hockney, Joan Jonas, Fran Lebowitz Patti Smith, Kara Walker, and many others. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the International Center of Photography (ICP), New York, the book includes essays by the exhibition's curator, Helen Molesworth, and the artist and writer Jarrett Earnest
£33.25
Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd Beyond the Face
Book SynopsisBrilliantly explores how portraits can help us relate to other people in an intentional and expectant way* Written in an accessible manner, this is a book that will deepen our empathy for friends and strangers* Uses a three-step method of noticing, responding, and reflecting to help us recognise ourselves and others in portraits* I found the approach of this book to be transformational in my own spiritual journey'' ~ Dr Anne Moseley, Faculty member, Oxford Centre for Mission StudiesOur lives are made up of a complex web of relationships with those we initially get to know through their face. The quality of these relationships influences what we believe and value, and how we think and behave. Focussing on the human face, Stephen Girling explores how portraits can help us relate to other people in a new way. Outlining a three-step method of noticing, responding, and reflecting, he gives the reader a tool with which we can go beyond the face in a portrait to see something of the eternal'
£13.49
Michael O'Mara Books Ltd A History of Portraits in 21 Dogs
Book SynopsisJoin man’s best friend on a walk through art history.From ancient Egyptian busts to 1960s screenprints, portraiture is an historic art form beloved of painters, sculptors and photographers alike. A History of Portraits in 21 Dogs offers a fun, unique guide to this fascinating genre, with 21 of the most important and recognizable masterpieces recreated with dashing dog subjects. Each reimagined artwork is accompanied by information about the original artist and portrait, as well as a bitesize, illustrated breakdown of all the key elements of the piece.Illustrated by art-lover and animal enthusiast Nia Gould, A History of Portraits in 21 Dogs is an accessible, engaging and imaginative companion to feline favourite A History of Art in 21 Cats.
£11.69
Eiderdown Books Nina Hamnett
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£10.44
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.
£33.25
Eiderdown Books Painting Women Writers: Susanne du Toit
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£27.00
Nooobooks 50 faces: illustrated portrait art
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£23.96
Smithsonian Books Capital Portraits: Treasures from Washington
Book SynopsisCapital Portraits: Treasures from Washington Private Collections presents little-known artistic treasures from important Washington area private collections. These portraits by major artists date from the mid-eighteenth century to the present, and they speak to the many reasons that paintings and sculpture continue to represent and capture human likenesses and personalities. Privately collected, commissioned, or inherited, they have seldom, if ever, been seen in a public setting. The catalogue, which accompanies an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from April 1 through September 5, 2011, illustrates the portraits and recounts their histories, including comments by living sitters about having their portraits made.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Portraits in Washington Private Collections: A Window on the History of Portraiture in America Part 2 Catalog Chapter 3 1. Ralph Izard as a Boy Chapter 4 2. Andrew Oliver Jr. Chapter 5 3. Mary Lynde Oliver Chapter 6 4. Peter Oliver Chapter 7 5. James Craik Chapter 8 6. Myles Cooper Chapter 9 7. Thomas and Henry Sergeant Chapter 10 8. Marquis de Lafayette Chapter 11 9. John Hite Morton Chapter 12 10. Elizabeth Bowdoin, Lady Temple Chapter 13 11. Hannah Skinner Church, Her Daughter Maria Church, and Her Daughter-in-law Elizabeth Bentley Church Chapter 14 12. Sarah Weston Seaton with Her Children Augustine and Julia Chapter 15 13. Latham Avery Chapter 16 14. Betsey Wood Lester Avery Chapter 17 15. Self-portrait (John James Audubon) Chapter 18 16.George Richard James (Sullivan) Bowdoin and James Sullivan Chapter 19 17. Phoebe Caroline Elliott Pinckney Chapter 20 18.Catharine Peabody Gardner Chapter 21 19. Howqua (Wu Bingjian) Chapter 22 20. William Russell Cone Chapter 23 21. Rebecca Daggett Brewster Cone Chapter 24 22. James Brewster Cone Chapter 25 23. John Clarke Chapter 26 24. Portrait of a Young Girl Chapter 27 25.Robert Wickliffe Jr. Chapter 28 26. Sarah Osgood Johnson Newton Chapter 29 27. Hannah Chapter 30 28. Czar Alexander II of Russia Chapter 31 29. Delia Spencer Caton Field Chapter 32 30. Susan in a Toque Trimmed with Two Roses Chapter 33 31. Albert de Belleroche Chapter 34 32. Portrait of My Daughter (Dorothy Brémond Chase) Chapter 35 33. Alfred, Lord Tennyson Chapter 36 34. Ethel Mary Crocker (Countess André de Lemur) Chapter 37 35. Hildegarde Chapter 38 36. Sister Chapter 39 37. Brother Chapter 40 38. The Pau Hunt (Frederick Henry Prince and Frederick Henry Prince Jr.) Chapter 41 39. Pauline Morton Smith Sabin Davis Chapter 42 40. Vilhjalmur Stefansson Chapter 43 41. Frederick Henry Prince III Chapter 44 42. Dorette Kruse Fleischmann Chapter 45 43. Seated Figure (Lucille Corcos) Chapter 46 44. Head of a Dancer (Harald Kreutzberg) Chapter 47 45. Self-portrait as a Young Man with Mirror (John N. Robinson) Chapter 48 46. Self-portrait (Frederick C. Flemister) Chapter 49 47. First Gallery (Alonzo J. Aden) Chapter 50 48. Gwendolyn Detre de Surany Cafritz Chapter 51 49. Warren Zimmermann Chapter 52 50. Mamie Geneva Doud Eisenhower Chapter 53 51. Dolores Suero Chapter 54 52. Nat (Nat Rose) Chapter 55 53. Evie (Evelyn Stefansson Nef) Chapter 56 54. Diana #3 (Diana Beckman) Chapter 57 55. Self-portrait (Gene Davis) Chapter 58 56. Christina Esslay Spira (Ina) Ginsburg Chapter 59 57. Self-portrait with Squash (Gregory Gillespie) Chapter 60 58. Sally Quinn Chapter 61 59. William A. Haseltine Chapter 62 60. Passing/Posing (St. Monaca) (Robert Reynolds) Chapter 63 61. Kate (Kate Moss) Chapter 64 62. Judith Martin in Venice Part 65 Index
£41.40
George F. Thompson Choosing Fatherhood: America’S Second Chance
Book SynopsisFamilies come in all sizes, shapes, and traditions, each a unique variation of a universal human theme. Whether one comes from a heterosexual, single-sex, or one-parent home, stability and love are paramount. Unfortunately, in the United States, the absence of fathers from their children’s lives has become a real problem. In fact, the Brookings Institute has identified absentee fathers as America's most pressing problem—greater than the economy, education, the environment, health care, infrastructure, you name it. Why? Because nearly every social ill finds an umbrella, a home if you will, in the fatherless home. Choosing Fatherhood: America's Second Chance is meant to explore this issue as no previous book has. And it does so through the art of photography, in which Lewis Kostiner makes portraits of dads who are involved in their children's lives. The book is also accompanied by essays written by leading authorities on the subject: Juan Williams of FOX News, David Travis who was Curator of Photography at the Art Institute of Chicago for more than thirty-five years, sociologist Shipra Parikh at Loyola University in Chicago, sociologist Derrick M. Bryan at the Morehouse College, and Roland Warren, former director of the National Fatherhood Initiative, a nonprofit organization dedicated to enhancing fatherhood in America, who also served on President Obama's task force on fatherless homes. Getting fathers to be more involved in their children’s lives is of paramount importance, if the United States is to regain ground as an international leader. Right now, the statistics look grim: forty years ago only eleven percent of America's children lived in homes without fathers, but today more than a third do. This translates into high poverty rates, high drop-out rates in high school, high rates of incarceration, multiple behavioral problems, and the list goes on. As President Obama has declared, fatherhood does not begin with the ecstasy of conception but with the beauty of childbirth and the responsibilities that come with creating and caring for a human life. Although changes in custody rulings and other policy remedies are possible, behavioral patterns are often outside the reach of policy. Choosing Fatherhood offers a hopeful direction that America does have a second chance at correcting a troubling trend, but time is slipping, and awareness of the problem is an important start. (See the publishers website for further information about events and a slide show from the book: http://gftbooks.com/books_Kostiner.html ) Go here to see an interview with the photographer Lewis Kostiner and Juan Williams who wrote the introduction: http://video.foxnews.com/v/2197946608001/
£35.15
Museyon Guides Lust, Lies and Monarchy: The Secrets Behind
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£15.29
David Zwirner Alice Neel: Freedom
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£28.00
Daylight Books Skaters: Tintype Portraits of West Coast
Book SynopsisThe portraits in Skaters compel the subject, the photographer, and the viewer to slow down. These images, created with wet plate collodion, offer an honest glimpse into the skateboarders' core being: pensive, tough, playful, anxious, distracted, and innocent. Even the plates of seemingly empty skate parks are in fact teeming with immense energy and motion, yet the skaters are moving too quickly to be captured with long exposures. Jenny Sampson earned a BA in Psychobiology at Pitzer College and has since dedicated her time to her photographic endeavors: wet plate collodion, traditional black and white photography, and commissioned portraits.Trade Review“...beautiful portraiture in a subculture usually defined by movement.”, - The Guardian, November 3, 2017 Also featured by: Photo District News Lenscratch Huck Magazine
£28.79
Radius Books Betsy Schneider - To Be Thirteen
Book SynopsisIn 2011, Arizona-based photographer Betsy Schneider, herself the mother of a 13-year-old daughter, embarked on a project to explore the experience of being 13. Traveling around the United States, the Guggenheim grant recipient spent 2012 chronicling 250 13 year olds, creating still portraits and video documentation of each. The resulting body of work creates a rich collective portrait of a group of Americans whose lives began at the turn of the millennium and who are coming of age now. To Be Thirteen depicts all 250 portraits with brief quotations from the extended video interviews and an interview by Center for Creative Photography Chief Curator Rebecca Senf with Schneider, unpacking details about the artist’s process, insights about the project and how it changed her, as well as longer excerpts from the subjects. This publication captures and conveys the experience of meeting with the artist and looking through a stack of prints with her, and will complement an exhibition of the project debuting at the Phoenix Art Museum in the spring of 2018.
£30.00
Karma Michael Williams - Traditional Cornish Cottages
Book SynopsisThe fifth of Michael Williams’ (born 1978) artist’s books with Karma, this volume focuses on drawings of faces and figures partially obscured by a uniform-size image of a browser window open at a lifestyle or commerce website. These images are interspersed with sequences of entirely black and entirely white pages, creating a flickering effect—like rapidly clicking through one’s user history.
£22.80
New Texture Be Italian
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Glitterati Inc Frozen in Time: Photographs
Book SynopsisAn exquisite photographic narrative chronicling a turbulent mother-daughter relationship in the serene setting of a beautiful but decrepit Maine home, Frozen in Time is at once beautiful and heart-wrenching. Sarah C. Butler's luminous photographs tell a poignant story of coming to terms with a difficult mother in a way that is both intimately personal and universally relatable.Drawn to reconnect with her mother after a long estrangement, Butler found that taking photographs of the partially restored Maine farmhouse where the older woman chose to live ultimately gave her the perspective to understand and respect her mother's choices. The images Butler made there are striking and evocative. A pair of little girls' dresses that once belonged to Butler and her sibling, which her mother kept for decades; a corner of the beloved but fading house with its foundation jacked up on a pile of rocks; a partial glimpse of her mother, present yet unknowable-- these and others reveal a complex and compelling psychological narrative. This is a book about family, distance and reconciliation, and, finally, the beauty to be found in acceptance. It is also a stunning visual tour de force that will mesmerize photography aficionados and students of family relations alike.Trade Review[Frozen in Time] is about Butler's mother and the dreams and aspirations that drove her until the end of her life. But more importantly, it is a book about how the photographs, and the process of making them, transformed Butler herself. -- David Walker, U.S. Comptroller General, 1998-2008 * PDN, February, 2017 *Elegant dusty rooms, the changing seasons on the land… her mother's rotating collection of chickens… the images added up to more than a description of a place… [there is] beauty in their "emptiness and stark simplicity." * PDN, January 10, 2017 *When her mother's health began to deteriorate in 2009, American fine art photographer Sarah C. Butler travelled from Boston to her mother's Maine home, where they were reunited after a long estrangement… The project, it turned out, was far more than simply a document of her mother's life… [it captures] their relationship in a way that makes them at once universally relatable. -- Eva Clifford * Feature Shoot, January 9, 2017 *an intense poignancy * The Guardian, January 10, 2017 *There is untidiness in photographer Sarah C. Butler's new book Frozen In Time. Clutter and raveled emotions fill its pages. Her pictures are a tangle of unsparing observation and gentleness, and many capture a serene beauty. -- David Schonauer * AI-AP, February 7, 2017 *Butler presents beauty in the ravages of life, weather and time...Frozen in Time documents a crumbling house, but also a real home where heart was found. -- Marisa Bartolucci * Introspective Magazine *
£49.30
Smithsonian Books Politics and Portraits in the United States and
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Karma Alex Katz: Beauty
Book SynopsisElegant monochrome glamour in Katz's new print series This handsome clothbound catalog gathers Alex Katz’s recent titular print portfolio. The series of 25 prints features close-up, black-and-white portraits that remove the subjects from any contextual backdrop, emphasizing instead subtle shifts in expression. Rendered in bold lineation and tightly framed, the women depicted recall the models and celebrities featured in mid-20th-century fashion imagery, underscoring Katz’s ongoing fascination with perceptions of beauty and glamour that permeate the public sphere. The portraits are bookended by a pair of meditations on beauty: Carter Ratcliff imagines a comedically philosophical dialogue between himself and beauty, and Jarrett Earnest shares 31 encounters with beauty in art and life. Alex Katz (born 1927) is one of America’s most iconic and prolific artists. His work has been the subject of more than 250 solo exhibitions and 500 group exhibitions since 1951 and can be found in over 100 public collections worldwide. Katz is best known for his large-scale canvases of flatly rendered figures cast against a monochrome background.Trade ReviewIf Katz is an artist of distillation, this volume may be the purest shot yet. -- David O'Neill * Bookforum *
£28.35
Editions Skira Paris Thameur Mejri (Bilingual edition)
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£24.00
Brepols N.V. Example or Alter Ego? Aspects of the Portrait
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£190.00
Brepols N.V. Funerary Representations of Palmyrene Women: From
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£131.10
Brepols N.V. Scottish Portraiture 1644-1714
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£157.70
Brepols Publishers Odds and Ends: Unusual Elements in Palmyrene
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£101.65
Reunion Des Musees Nationaux Carnets de Gisèle Freund
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£44.96
De Gruyter Höfische Porträtkultur: Die Bildnissammlung der
Book SynopsisErstmals wird hier die Bildnissammlung der österreichischen Erzherzogin Maria Anna (1738-1789), Tochter Maria Theresias und Franz Stephans von Lothringen, vorgestellt. Zur Ausstattung ihres Alterssitzes nahe des Elisabethinenkonvents in Klagenfurt entstanden, umfasst die Sammlung Porträts der Habsburgerfamilie, darunter auch zahlreiche Kinderbildnisse. Die bisher unpublizierte Sammlung zeigt eine faszinierende Adaption kaiserlicher Repräsentationspraktiken. Im Zentrum der Sammlung steht aber nicht das Einzelbild, sondern der Familienkontext: der Austausch, die Wiederholung und die gegenseitige Bezugnahme der Bildnisse aufeinander. Kunstwissenschaftliche Beiträge und ein umfangreicher Katalogteil eröffnen einen exemplarischen Einblick in die höfische Porträtkultur des 18. Jahrhunderts.Table of ContentsEva Kernbauer, Einleitung.Michael Yonan: Die Hinterlassenschaft Maria Annas und das Konzept einer fürstlichen Porträtsammlung.Werner Telesko: Herrschaftssicherung mittels visueller Repräsentation. Zur Porträtkultur Maria Theresias.Stefanie Kitzberger, "ich brauch in keinem zimmer keinen baldachin wär auch sehr lächerlich". Selbstinszenierung und Repräsentation der Erzherzogin Maria Anna.Aneta Zahradnik, Kinderporträts aus der Sammlung der Elisabethinen in Klagenfurt. Zu Porträtproduktion und -verbreitung im 18. Jahrhundert.Gabriela Krist, Caroline Ocks, Veronika Loiskandl, Barbara Eisenhardt, Britta Schwenck, Die Gemälde- und Paramentensammlung der Elisabethinen in Klagenfurt. Vom Dachboden zum Schaudepot.Ausführlicher Katalogteil.
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De Gruyter Faceless: Re-inventing Privacy Through Subversive
Book SynopsisThe contributions to this book explore a phenomenon that appears to be a contradiction in itself – we, the users of computers, can be tracked in digital space for all eternity. Although, on the one hand, one wants to be noticed and noticeable, on the other hand one does not necessarily want to be recognized at the first instance, being prey to an unfathomable public, or – even less so – to lose face. The book documents artistic and other strategies that point out options for appearing in the infinite book of faces whilst nevertheless avoiding being included in any records. The desire not to become a mere object of facial sell-out does not just remain an aesthetic endeavor. The contributions also contain combative and sarcastic statements against a digital dynamic that has already penetrated our everyday lives. Table of ContentsBogomir Doringer, The Beginning Thomas Macho, Faceless Book Bogomir Doringer, Archiving faceless Jeremy Bailey, Hi! I’m famous new media artist Jeremy Bailey! Matthias Tarasiewicz, Faceless Praxis in the Age of Zero Trust: Strategies of Disappearance and Distributed Pseudonymity in Art and Research ADAM HARVEY, THE PRIVACY GIFT SHOP Brigitte Felderer, Public Privacy Josephine Bosma, The Future is Unknown – I am the Future Rosa Menkman, Behind the White Shadows of Image Processing: Shirley, Lena, Jennifer and the Angel of History Simone C. Niquille, Here Be Faces Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Suppressed Images Joe Muggs, Permission is a Material: Jill Magid Faces the Information Sublime mint film office, Selected Experts from the WE MARGIELA Interviews Walter Seidl, Masking the Body as a Trope of Japanese Reflections on Reality Hille Koskela, Exhibitionism as the New Normal: From Presenting to Performing Nikola Knežević/Bruno Listopad, The Museum Teresa Dillon, UNDER NEW MOONS WE STAND STRONG FEATURES: MARINA ABRAMOVIČ, GUILLAUME AIRIAUD, AMY ALEXANDER, LISETTE APPELDORN, ARTISTIC BOKEH, MARTIN BACKES, JEREMY BAILEY, BANKSY, JONATHAN BARNBROOK, ARAM BARTHOLL, IVANA BAŠIĆ, WILLIAM BASINSKI, WILL BECTON & STEPHEN HOBAN, EVELYN BENČIČOVÁ & ADAM CSOKA KELLER, MARC BIJL, ZACH BLAS, JOSEPHINE BOSMA, HEIKO BRESSNIK, THORSTEN BRINKMANN, ONDREJ BRODY & KRISTOFER PAETAU, MARK BROWN, PIETER BRUEGEL, GÜNTER BRUS, ASGER CARLSEN, LEWIS CHAPLIN, STERLING CRISPIN, ALBERTO DE MICHELE, OLIVIER DE SAGAZAN, MARTIN C DE WAAL, BEN DEHAAN, HEATHER DEWEYHAGBORG, TERESA DILLON, BOGOMIR DORINGER, ANDERS EDSTRÖM, NEZAKET EKICI, ARTHUR ELSENAAR, SHAHRAM ENTEKHABI, BRIGITTE FELDERER, KARIN FISSLTHALER, PABLO GARCIA, CARON GEARY AKA FERAL IS KINKY, HRAFNHILDUR GISSURARDÓTTIR, JOHN GOTO, SOFIE GROOT DENGERINK, GUERRILLA GIRLS, DAVID HAINES, REN HANG, ADAM HARVEY, VIKTOR HERAK, URSULA HÜBNER, DAMIER JOHNSON AKA REBEL YUTHS, KATSUYA KAMO FOR JUNYA WATANABE COMME DES GARÇONS, SHOILI KANUNGO, BRIAN KENNY, JÜRGEN KLAUKE, UTE KLEIN, NIENKE KLUNDER, JAKOB LENA KNEBL & THOMAS HÖRL, NIKOLA KNEŽEVIĆ & BRUNO LISTOPAD, KNOWBOTIC RESEARCH, HILLE KOSKELA, MIODRAG KRKOBABIĆ, MIRKO LAZOVIĆ, MARC LEE, THEO-MASS LEXILEICTOUS, GEOFFREY LILLEMON, VANESSA LODIGIANI, ZACHARI LOGAN, MANU LUKSCH, THOMAS MACHO, JILL MAGID, RENÉ MAGRITTE, MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA, LAUREN McCARTHY, ROSA MENKMAN, BOB MILOSHEVIĆ, MINT FILM OFFICE, JELENA MISKOVIĆ, MODDR_LAB (WALTER LANGELAAR, GORDAN SAVICIC AND DANJA VASILIEV), SLAVA MOGUTIN, YASUMASA MORIMURA, JOE MUGGS, ANDREW NEWMAN, SIMONE C. NIQUILLE/TECHNOFLESH, BERND OPPL, MARCO PEZZOTTA, PABLO PICASSO, GERDA POSTMA, EVA-MARIA RAAB, RAF SIMONS, ARNULF RAINER, ANA RAJCEVIC, DAPHNE ROSENTHAL, TARRON RUIZ-AVILA, MUSTAFA SABBAGH, DANIEL SANNWALD, BRYAN LEWIS SAUNDERS, CARMEN SCHABRACQ, FRANK SCHALLMAIER, HESTER SCHEURWATER, WALTER SEIDL, TIM SILVER, SNEAKER_MASK, CHERYL SOURKES, JAN STRADTMANN, SERGEI SVIATCHENKO, JUN TAKAHASHI FOR UNDERCOVER, MAIKO TAKEDA, MATTHIAS TARASIEWICZ, SAŠA TKAČENKO, MARC TURLAN, UBERMORGEN, ELLIE UYTTENBROEK & ARI VERSLUIS, SABI VAN HEMERT, LEVI VAN VELUW, STUDIO DRIES VERHOEVEN, VERMIBUS, VIKTOR&ROLF, PHILIPPE VOGELENZANG & MAJID KARROUCH, ADDIE WAGENKNECHT & STEFAN HECHENBERGER, ANNE WENZEL, MÅRTEN WESTIN, BERNHARD WILLHELM, ANDREW NORMAN WILSON, JWAN YOSEF
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Bohlau Verlag Der Anzug im Porträt: Kleidung und Inszenierung
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Bohlau Verlag Welfen und Portrat: Visuelle Strategien hofischer
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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.
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De Gruyter Francis Bacon: Portrait, 1962
Book SynopsisFrancis Bacon’s portrait of his first partner Peter Lacy is somehow simultaneously attractive and repulsive. The monumental portrait dating from 1962 was unknown to the public for a long time. Shortly after it was painted, Italian film director Michelangelo Antonioni acquired the work and it remained in private hands for decades. This is a key work, created at a turning point in Bacon’s oeuvre. Markus Rath embeds the painting into Bacon’s visual world for the first time. The English painter reveals a biographically oriented representationalism in the portrait, concentrating his compositional arrangement on the stage-like interior and forcing a contrast between the two-dimensional ground and the colour-saturated figure – these are pioneering approaches to composition that shaped his late work decisively.
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De Gruyter Das Museum im Buch: Paolo Giovios Elogia und die
Book SynopsisDer Basler Druckerverleger Pietro Perna legte mit seiner zwischen 1575 und 1578 gedruckten Neuausgabe der Schriften des italienischen Historikers Paolo Giovio ein für die Entwicklung des frühneuzeitlichen Porträtbuchs paradigmatisches Werk vor. Mehr als 200 Porträtkopien - gerissen vom oberrheinischen Künstler Tobias Stimmer - zieren die Bände der aufwendigen Schmuckedition. Mit ihnen verband sich das Versprechen einer ‚Übersetzung‘ von Giovios berühmter Sammlung in das gedruckte Buch. Die Studie untersucht Stimmers Bildnisse im Zusammenhang mit zeitgenössischen Porträttheorien und Authentizitätskonzepten sowie mit verlegerischen Vermarktungs- und Inszenierungsstrategien. Dabei wird die Spur der Porträts als kulturhistorische Sammlungsobjekte und Kopiervorlagen bis in die Neuzeit hinein verfolgt.
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