Human Figures

• The Human Form in Mosaic
  The Human Form in Mosaic is an original and revelatory exploration in the hands of an accomplished artist and author, using the human form as a means to introduce the reader to the technique of mosaic-making. The author guides the reader through the step-by-step process of individually cutting and ...
• Home
  Do you believe that you can define a person by the home they live in and the possessions they surround themselves with? Do the books on their shelves and the paint on their walls give away their personality, and what would you think about someone who lived in a white, minimal space with nothing at ...
• 500 Figures in Clay
  It's an absolutely unequalled photographic gallery: no other book has ever presented such a varied, captivating collection of contemporary ceramics based on the human form. The works range from representational to abstract, from artful realism to provocative surrealism, and many of them come from l...
• The Figure in Motion
  Leaping, somersaulting, stretching and dancing figures animate this gallery of action poses, photographed for artists of all levels to use as a reference when portraying human figures in motion. There are pictures of both male and female models in su...
• Citizens and Kings
  This dramatically illustrated catalogue includes an incisive series of essays that explore portraiture in Europe and North America between 1770 and 1830. Leading experts discuss key works from the Enlightenment and revolutionary period, covering the major intellectual, political and social upheaval...
• Erotik im Fernen Osten Oder: Transition from Cool to Warm
  This beautifully printed volume reproduces an artist's book created by Anselm Kiefer in 1977. On one level it is a pictorial tale of Kiefer's voyage to Norway's North Cape, with lyrically expressive seascapes and landscapes rendered in deep blue, violet and purple tones. As this sequence gives way ...
• Fayum Portraits
  Miraculously preserved in the desert sands, the people of Roman Egypt had their likenesses captured in portraits painted on coffins. But who created these images? This book attempts to piece together the secret of these ancient portaits, which can be seen in museums all over the world....
• Reclining Nude
  Featuring full-page illustrations of masterpieces of the genre - from Titian's "Venus of Urbino" to Manet's "Olympia", from Invres' "Large Odalisque" to Lucian Freud's "Naked Girl" - this volume provides a tour of Western society's ever-changing visions of beauty and repose....
• J'aime Cheri Samba
  Takes a retrospective look at the achievements of one of the best-known contemporary African artists living and working in Africa today. Samba's work illustrates social life: customs, sexuality, AIDS, social inequalities and corruption....
• The Red Rose Girls
  A beautiful art book and a richly illustrated biography, The Red Rose Girls is the story of three remarkable women artists--Jessie Willcox Smith, Elizabeth Shippen Green, and Violet Oakley--who captivated early-twentieth-century society with their brilliant careers and bohemian lifestyle. Nicknamed...
• Babies
  Popular science meets parenting in this fascinating and beautiful book. Covering a baby's first two years with retrospective glimpses of life in the womb, it details the incredible changes that occur as development progresses. Desmond Morris' thought-provoking book sets out the astonishing facts wi...
• Abraham Lincoln
  In 1890, Abraham Lincoln's two main White House secretaries, John G. Nicolay and John Hay, published the ten-volume biography Abraham Lincoln: A History. Although the authors witnessed the daily events occurring within the executive mansion and the national Capitol, their lengthy biography is more ...
• Byzantine Women and Their World
  The featured artworks, gathered from premier collections in North America, date from the fourth through the 15th century and represent a full range of media and subject matter. They include luxury objects such as ivories, silver vessels, and precious jewelry utilitarian objects such as toiletries a...
• Energy
  As Einstein pointed out in his famous equation, E=MC2, all matter can be described as energy. It is everywhere it is everything. In this engaging book, prolific author and academic Vaclav Smil provides an introduction to the far-reaching term and gives the reader a greater understanding of energy's...
• Assume Nothing
  This book is a photographic exploration into the experience of gender across cultures, nations and generations. Photographer, Rebecca Swan, has photographed and interviewed 25 people around the world about their experience of gender. In doing so, she creates an intimate and poignant window into the...
• New Zealand Portraits
  This magnificent book is a collection of New Zealand painted portraits from our earliest times. With selections based on the quality of the art and the importance of the artist, this offering promises to be a truly memorable and significant snapshot of a vital aspect of New Zealand's art heritage. ...
• Painting People
  After a century in which the lexicon of artists' materials expanded from the classic oil, canvas, stone and plaster to include photography, film, performance, found objects and concepts, the spotlight has finally swung back. A new generation of artists--as well as some who never abandoned figurativ...
• Pornoland
  Pornoland is a strange parallel world where pornographic films are churned out on a daily basis. Photographs by de Luigi and text by Martin Armis are your guides through this land, filled with actors capable of extraordinary performances (although not the kind that win Oscars) and directors who mak...
• The Portrait Miniature in England
  A fascinating account of the development of English miniature painting featuring masterpieces from the V&A's collection, which contains some of the finest examples in existence. A unique art form with its own demanding techniques, highly skilled painters and intriguing social history, the portrait ...
• The Society Portrait
  In a time that celebrates physical perfection and money over so much else, this book is a lesson in elegance, grace and style. It draws together for the first time in a single volume a sumptuous gallery of portraits dating from the early 19th century to the Second World War. Some are well-known, ot...
• The British Museum Little Book of Erotica
• Cyberculture, Cyborgs and Science Fiction
  Addressing a key issue related to human nature, this book argues that the first-person experience of pure consciousness may soon be under threat from posthuman biotechnology. In exploiting the mind's capacity for instrumental behavior, posthumanists seek to extend human experience by physically pro...
• Knots and Straps: v. 1
  Vincent Stephens enjoys the curves and valleys of a woman's body - to say the least! Illustrating said ladies of some dimension and heft, he also likes to see them in decidedly uncomfortable positions. It's why we call it 'fantasy art'! A popular erotic and pin-up artist, Vincent Stephens has been ...
• The Pin-Up Art of Jay Scott Pike: v. 1
  The sudden breeze the accidental rip the unintentional underwear peek-a-boo - these are time-tested themes in pin-ups, but few artists made such a delightful subject out of them than Jay Scott Pike! A formidable painter and illustrator from the old school, Jay's body of work is as curvaceous and ap...
• Ephemeral Bodies
  The material history of wax is a history of disappearance--wax melts, liquefies, evaporates, and undergoes innumerable mutations. Wax is tactile, ambiguous, and mesmerizing, confounding viewers and scholars alike. It can approximate flesh with astonishing realism and has been used to create uncanny...
• Lessons on Figure Drawing
  Separated into two distinct sections -- Elements of Figure Drawing and Drawing From the Figure -- this exhaustive reference features nearly 80 drawings, photos, and paintings. It covers every topic, from the basics of posing a model and choosing materials to measurement, action, median lines, fores...
• Pop Art Portraits
  The book examines these artists' shared engagement with depicting the famous, using images taken from advertising, pop music, the cinema and the press. It demonstrates how Pop Art shattered the conventions of portraiture, creating a new genre of fantasy portraits that repositioned popular culture a...
• George Romney, 1734-1802
  This handsome catalogue, which accompanies a major international exhibition commemorating the bicentennial of George Romney's death, offers the first in-depth modern overview of a key figure in eighteenth-century British art. Romney was the main rival of Sir Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough ...
• Invisible Art
  This book attempts to show us beautiful things which are not ordinarily thought of as beautiful--to make invisible art visible. Some of the things included in Invisible Art are: coloring book covers, old postcards, cigarette cards, and children's book illustrations. Unusual themes are explored, suc...
• Peerless Images
  Boris Marshak discusses pre-Islamic and also Central Asian art, in particular the earliest Iranian wall paintings and their pictorial parallels in rock carvings and metalwork, and the richly painted temples and houses of Panjikent. Ernst Grube considers religious imagery, and provides an informativ...
• Brilliant Women
  From Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Germaine Greer, influential women have lamented their lack of foremothers. But why has the remarkable group of creative and intellectual women who flourished in eighteenth-century Britain been overlooked? Publicly c...
• Erotic Sentiment: In the Paintings of India and Nepal
  - A full-color collection of Eastern erotic art that presents lovemaking as a highly spiritual expression.- Brings together some of the finest examples of erotic art from India and Nepal, including pieces from the private collection of Nepalese royalty.- Includes commentaries and translations of ve...
• Naked Portrait
  This is the first study of a fascinating, international phenomenon in the art of the past century. 'Naked portraiture' is an original hybrid of the traditional genres of the nude and portrait, and has been created by an astonishing range of major art...
• A Brush with History
  Portraiture is a unique genre that is common ground both for American art history and for history told through the biographies of the people who shaped it. Offering 78 wide-ranging examples from the incomparable National Portrait Gallery's collection, A Brush with History showcases the American por...
• Erotic Comics: A Graphic History v. 2
• Voyeur Secrets
• Children in Painting
  Here is a voyage through a selection of European masterpieces: from Giotto's Presentation of the Virgin to Botticelli's Mars and Venus, from Raphael's Madonna Sistina to Titian's Ranuccio Farnese, from Las meninas by Velasquez to Two Children at the ...
• The Portrait Now
  The Portrait Now presents a unique and important selection of contemporary portraits from across the world. Featuring over eighty portraits, including the most recent work of internationally acclaimed artists, the book demonstrates the accomplishment and inventiveness of this major art form. The Po...
• Auguste Rodin
  Much of Auguste Rodin's work defied traditional artistic conventions but out of the public eye, he took a further decisive step towards modernism in a different genre. His erotic female nude studies, created during the final two decades of his life, represent a completely new approach to art - one ...
• Drawing and Painting People
  Readers will find the best of North Light's instruction in oil, acrylic, watercolour and coloured pencil on how to draw and paint people in classic portrait poses and environmental settings.Drawing and Painting People: The Essential Guide is loaded with time-tested step-by step instruction that the...
• Portrait and Figure Photography
  Terry Hope takes a selection of international photographers images of people and examines composition, tone, texture, contrast, mood, techniques, printing, processing and even how to finish and exhibit your work and incorporate it in website....
• The Paintings of John Ward
  This is a spectacular showcase of the art of John Ward, bringing together many of the artist's best and most familiar works. It includes the artist's famous portraits of the Princess of Wales and the Princess Royal. The commentary puts the plates into context with a wry and witty account of his car...
• Self Portrait
  An ambitious exploration of the self-portrait from its inception in the late fifteenth century to the end of the twentieth, this ground-breaking book moves beyond the constraints of art history. Self Portrait : Renaissance to Contemporary allows us to share an intimate encounter with great artists ...
• Searching for Shakespeare
  In 1856 the newly founded National Portrait Gallery was presented with a compelling painting of William Shakespeare, known as the 'Chandos' portrait. Yet today few scholars agree that a true contemporary portrait of the most famous playwright in the history of English literature actually exists. De...
• Virtue and Beauty
  This beautifully illustrated and exquisitely designed volume of paintings, sculpture, medals, and drawings celebrates the extraordinary flowering of female portraiture, mainly in Florence, beginning in the latter half of the fifteenth century. Included are many of the finest portraits of women (and...
• Carving Classic Female Faces in Wood
  Noted sculptor Ian Norbury gives woodcarvers a thorough, how-to guide to bringing out the beauty of a female face from a block of wood. Using hundreds of photographs and drawings, the author provides in-depth instruction on carving two different adult faces - one European and one Afro-Caribbean - a...
• Carving Classic Female Figures in Wood
  This thorough reference demonstrates how to creatively and realistically portray aspects of the nude female figure in wood. Focusing on the female upper body, two step-by-step projects with complete instructional captions guide woodworkers of any ability level though an entire carving project from ...
• Greek Beauty
  Goddess, nymph, muse, or merely mortal, women never ceased to inspire Greek sculptors and painters. Far from representing an ideal beauty of young athletes with exultant bodies, these sensuous feminine models recount to us the ambiguous notions the Greeks had toward women. Showing both the fascinat...
• Self-portraits
  Astonishing insight into the personal life of one of the most influential political icons of the 20th century All text and photos never before published Includes self-portrait photos, photos of his family taken by Che, and photos of Che taken by his wife Includes poetry by Che and letters to his fa...
• Treasures to Hold
  This catalogue has been produced to accompany an exhibition of Irish and English miniatures held from October to December 2000. It also contains an updated illustrated summary catalogue of the entire collection. Portrait miniatures, small enough to fit in the palm of the hand, are uique among works...
• Women in Italian Renaissance Art
  This is the first book which gives a general overview of women as subject-matter in Italian Renaissance painting. The text is divided into five chapters with an introduction, which cover the following themes: women as protagonists of narratives in paintings for domestic furniture portraiture the nu...
• Figurative Paintings
  Highlights the work of 204 newly discovered regional Modernist painters, especially some from Belgium, with carefully researched biographical information about each one. Over 350 color photographs display their dynamic works. These paintings helped spread the Parisian influence throughout the world...
• Gartel: the Art of Fetish
• Drawing from Life
  The leading textbook for college figure-drawing classes, DRAWING FROM LIFE provides a clear, comprehensive, and thought-provoking guide to drawing the human form for anyone interested in exploring this time-honored artistic tradition. For centuries, drawing the human figure has given artists the to...
• COMPLETE PORTRAIT COURSE
  Follow the 42 projects in this heavily illustrated, practical portrait course and you will be able to create wonderful, lifelike drawings of all your family and friends using a variety of media....
• Life Drawing
  Drawing people is more than just accurately capturing the anatomy and details of the subject. Artists that capture the soul of the model breath life into the artwork by expressing a mood, idea, or emotion, that cannot be captured by accurate rendering alone.Life Drawing will give the reader all the...
• Multiple Wives, Multiple Pleasures
  This is a critical study of French and Britis art and written texts (poetry, literature, travel accounts, art criticism)- orientalist works about the harem produced in the period from 1800-1875. Original readings are provided for over 150 harem pictures, from well-known salon paintings to rarely pu...
• Figure Drawing for Dummies
  Figure Drawing For Dummies appeals to both new art students and veteran artists who find it difficult to proportionally draw the human form. The illustrations and examples in Figure Drawing For Dummies are designed to help readers capture this elusive figure....
• Casta Painting
  The pictorial genre known as casta painting is one of the most compelling forms of artistic expression from colonial Mexico. Created as sets of consecutive images, the works portray racial mixing among the main groups that inhabited the colony: Indians, Spaniards, and Africans. In this beautifully ...
• Human Anatomy
  Human Anatomy, Fifth Edition builds upon the clear and concise explanations of the best-selling fourth edition with a dramatically improved art and photo program and expanded clinical coverage. Recognized for helping students establish the framework needed for understanding how anatomical structure...
• A Celebration of Love
  The romantic heroine in the Indian tradition is celebrated in prose, poetry, painting, dance and music. This volume examines these various aspects of her romantic emotion, its depiction in the paintings of the Rajput courts and other schools of art, and above all, investigates the central position ...
• Rembrant's Jews
  There is a popular and romantic myth about Rembrandt and the Jewish people. One of history's greatest artists, we are often told, had a special affinity for Judaism. With so many of Rembrandt's works devoted to stories of the Hebrew Bible, and with his apparent penchant for Jewish themes and the sy...
• Picasso
  The starting point of this exciting new exploration of Picasso is not his life but his work, which is revealed as a series of interventions in the troubled history of early twentieth-century Europe. Christopher Green shows how these interventions are remarkable for the force with which they confron...
• Drawing
  What do children hope to create when they put pencil to paper? An accurate likeness of the things they see, of course. With this imaginative, informative, and amply-illustrated guide to drawing, it's amazingly easy for kids to make those art dreams come true. After a brief overview of tools and mat...
• New Fashion Figure Templates
  This is the essential book for any fashion student or designer who wants to create stunning fashion illustrations quickly but lacks either the time or the confidence to draw their own. This book provides the answer with over 200 figure templates: figures in movement, with attitude and in classic el...
• Mastering Drawing The Human Figure From Life, Memory, Imagination
  This book was written to foster the creative spirit of the artist and to aid in the development and the continuation of realistic representational art. It is for all who love to draw the human form. It is for those who have never drawn a line, for those who are students who can draw to a certain de...
• Anatomy Lessons From The Great Masters
  This classic book, whose foremost author was one of the great artistic anatomy teachers of the twentieth century, is an invaluable instructor and reference guide for any professional, amateur, or student artist who depicts the human form. Revealing the drawing principles behind one hundred inspir...
• Human Anatomy Made Amazingly Easy
  This manual offers techniques that visually simplify and refine the study of the body's muscles and skeleton into concepts that can easily be used by beginning and intermediate artists alike. One example of this is the human neck. There are many large and small muscles in the neck, all rendered in ...
• Metamorphosis
  In her striking YA debut, Betsy Franco introduces an expressive soul with a heartbreakingly authentic voice. Ovid is a young artist with a lot on his mind: life, love, death. He pours it all - as confessions, observations, narrative poems, drawings - into the pages of a notebook. Inspired by his na...
• Mother And Child Care In Art
  Mother and Child Care in Art is the third in a series by Professor Alan Emery and Marcia Emery, authors of the highly successful Medicine and Art and Surgical and Medical Treatment in Art. This is a beautiful hardback collection of carefully selected works of art with illuminating and enthralling c...
• Anatomy For The Artist
  Throughout, the author explains how different artists have portrayed parts of the body. Ten masterpieces including Ingres' The Valpincon Bather and Hopper's Hotel Room are reproduced alongside a photographed model to show how previous masters and contemporary articles tackle the issue of life drawi...
• Gerhard Richter: Portraits
  Rebelling against the glamor and materialism of Pop Art in the 1960s Gerhard Richter created a powerful body of work rooted in the ordinary, everyday reality of the observed world. This book is the first major survey of Richter's portraits from this era to the present day and represents a major adv...
• Body Parts
  The human figure is a classic artistic subject - beautiful, inspiring, and challenging to draw. This sourcebook shows the many ways of seeing the figure and offers instruction, advice, and visual inspiration. Also included are tips and techniques on proportion and basic anatomy and the details of t...
• She
  The use of heterosexual pornography or soft erotica in collage and assemblage is often all too uncritical, but for a few of the California artists who came of age in the early 1950s, its applications were much more nuanced. For example, Wallace Berman's 1957 Cross assemblage features a close-up pho...
• Women Who Read Are Dangerous
  A compelling selection of paintings, drawings, prints and photographs of women reading through the ages....
• The Nude
  Learn to sketch an anatomically precise human figure with this complete guide to nude drawings that introduces the primary principles of proportion, structure, posture, and volume, as well as more complex concepts of rhythm and composition. Advice and suggestions for tackling the most difficult asp...
• The Fantasy Figure Artist's Reference File with CD-ROM
  Both professional and student illustrators of action and fantasy art can take the guesswork out of rendering extreme anatomy and dynamic action poses with help from this valuable reference source. It presents more than 600 detailed color photos of live models, and represents a wide range of physiqu...
• Velvet Love: v. 2
  Once again, those noted lesbianologists Stefano Mazzotti and Vincenzo Silvestroni have taken another hot and steamy journey into the jungle of girl-on-girl action, only to bring back more tantalising images! Nice work if you can get it, and these boys certainly know their way around. See lovely lad...
• Invention of Hysteria
  In this classic of French cultural studies, Georges Didi-Huberman traces the intimate and reciprocal relationship between the disciplines of psychiatry and photography in the late nineteenth century. Focusing on the immense photographic output of the Salpetriere hospital, the notorious Parisian asy...
• People
  Drawing people is generally considered one of the most difficult subjects to draw. There is so much to think about: proportion, posture and balance, how to make clothes look convincing and how to capture other elusive qualities that give figure drawings life and likeness. This book shows you all yo...
• The Erotic Sentiment: In the Paintings of China and Japan
  In Eastern culturees, it was customary to present collections of erotic art called pillow books to newlyweds.? This full-color edition showcases the finest examples of this art from China and Japan, accompanied by selections of Taoist verse....
• Erotic Comics: v. 2
  The liberating underground comix of the 60s heralded an explosion in the genres of erotic comic art, and this volume picks up the story to show how European, American and Asian artists have explored the possibility of the form in the years since. Erotic Comics: A Graphic History, Volume 2 examines ...
• Art of Drawing the Human Body
  The complete comprehensive guide to drawing the human body Professional advice and easy to follow techniques. Detailed colour illustrations throughout Followup to the successful Art of Drawing 1-4027-0932-3 This sequel to Art of Drawing offers a large format, vibrant illustrations, and instruction ...
• Carving the Female Face
  Carving the female face in wood presents a difficult challenge for woodcarvers -- their carved women too often looking like men in dresses. Starting with photos of women's faces, this guide offers an anatomy lesson on the bone and muscle structure of the female face, including information on the fa...
• On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, Second Edition
• The Art of Ronnie Werner
  Illustrator Ronnie Werner takes his cue from the classic pin-up style of the 40's and 50's, but through a very modern lens, updating the look and feel of the girls who made Dad and Grandad go all 'hubba-hubba' with a distinctive new flavour born of today's sensibilities. In other words - Hot! Able ...
• Bloodlust
  This title presents the essence of life courses through warm flesh, heating the midnight meal to a delicious 98.7 degrees of exquisite delight! Fiercesome fangs extend from ruby lips, and it's a hungry mouth that clamps upon the main artery of a willing neck. A new member has been selected, and ano...
• Santa's Helpers
  Hey, let's face facts - it's cold up at the North Pole. If you think hot chocolate and Mrs. Claus in a flannel nightie is all Santa has to keep himself warm - think again! Ol' St Nick keeps those handy lists of who's naughty and nice, but there's a special scrool of the very naughty that he keeps i...
• Anatomy Drawing School
  For centuries, the study of anatomy has played an imA?portant role in the education of artists. An understanding of anatomy constitutes the basis for the precise representation of human and animal forms, whether at rest or in motion. With more than 1,200 detailed illustrations by the Hungarian mast...
• Teach Me XXX
  Three young and seemingly wholesome teachers do what they can to take care of their pupils, but school budgets being what they are, sometimes these ladies have to do much more for the student body! Artist/writer Enrique Villagran merrily trots back to school to learn a few more lessons concerning h...
• Ashley Wood's 96 Nudes
  The Sparrow series of art books continues with its all-new way of looking at comic book art. Ashley Wood returns with just what the title suggests - 96 Nude Girls, collected from his previous two 48 Nudes editions....
• Censoring the Body
  Manifestos For The Twenty-First Century is a Seagull Series created in collaboration with Index On Censorship, a home and a voice for freedom of expression since it was founded in 1972. From the earliest times human beings have found it difficult to represent their own bodies in a straightforward w...
• Constable Portraits
  'I've always thought that it was completely loopy for people to go on about portrait painters, English portrait painters, and not to have Constable among them' - Lucian Freud, 2002. Constable's sitters make up a 'Jane Austen' world, belonging to the middle and upper ranks of early-nineteenth centur...
• Bodyscape
  Western art has long sought to find a perfect method of representing the body. At the same time as we have lost faith in the certainty of the modernist project, the perfect, straight, white body of modernism is now seen as fiction. But what sort of body will take its place? This work explores body ...
• Bloodlust: Vampire Erotica v. 1
  This title presents the essence of life courses through warm flesh, heating the midnight meal to a delicious 98.7 degrees of exquisite delight! Fiercesome fangs extend from ruby lips, and it's a hungry mouth that clamps upon the main artery of a willing neck. A new member has been selected, and ano...
• Drawing Caricatures
  Contains step-by-step exercises that help artists to build up their skills....
• Anatomy for Artists
  Each chapter deals with a different part of the body, making it easy to look up different body areas. Every artist interested in portraying the human body needs a thorough working knowledge of anatomy. Clearly annotated diagrams show the detail of the bone structure, the muscle layers and the surfa...
• Anatomy and Drawing
  This instructive book presents excellent line drawings and annotations of anatomical structure for the beginner artist. Explaining the subject in simple terms and with an extensive series of illustrations, the author identifies body parts and demonstrates physical activities through his sketches. F...
• Body and Face in Chinese Visual Culture
  Traditionally the Chinese body was approached as a totality and explained by sweeping comparisons of the differences that distinguished Chinese examples from their Western counterparts. Recently, scholars have argued that we must look at particular examples of Chinese images of the body and explore...
• Figure Drawing Without a Model
  This is a comprehensive manual of creative drawing covering everything you need to know to draw the human figure from memory and the imagination. It fires the imagination for drawing, beyond what can be posed in a studio or drawn from observation, to bring originality and style to your work. It exp...