Portraits In Art

• Emil Nolde
  This volume displays a collection of watercolours painted by Emil Nodle in the seclusion of his house in Seebull between 1938 and 1945 after his works in the museums had been confiscated by the Nazis and he had been forbidden to paint....
• Andy Warhol Portraits
  This book grew out of an exhibition that was organized by the Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, in 2005. With the show, Shafrazi paid homage to a seminal display of Warhol's portraits that took place at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, in 1979-80. Titled Andy Warhol: Portraits of the 19...
• 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....
• Francis Bacon
  Francis Bacon, one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century, speaks openly to his close friend Archimbaud about his life and art. The interviews took place in Bacon's studio just before his death in 1992. Francis Bacon was a self-taught painter and yet went on to become one of the greatest...
• 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...
• Andy Warhol
  Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro and Andy Warhol each significantly shaped the development of art in the 20th century. These modern masters are the subjects of four small books, the first volumes in a series featuring important artists in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Each book...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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 ...
• Warhol on Warhol
  Warhol was an extremely public figure, but a very private person. His guardedness, offset by his desire to place himself in front of the media, has created a confounding situation. While Warhol masterfully presented a honed persona to the world, his faade also drove critics, fans, acquaintances, an...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• Cezanne
  Painting 10 masters of the art world in the context of their times, these engaging references examine the political, religious, and social events that shaped the lives and works of history's most celebrated artists. Insightful text and original color paintings provide explanation and analysis of a ...
• Moche Portraits from Ancient Peru
  Of all the ancient civilizations that flourished in the Americas, only one perfected true portraiture of living people and produced it in quantity - the Moche who inhabited the north coast of Peru between approximately AD 100 and 800. Using the medium of three-dimensional ceramic vessels that could...
• Portrait
  Newton's collection of portraits from the worlds of film, fashion, politics, and culture can be considered a pantheon of VIPs. But his work is a lot more besides. From his portraits, one can see that he would have most liked to be a Roman paparazzo--as he once admitted. Anyone who had a portrait ma...
• John Currin
  Evocative, varied, sometimes vulgar, and often styled in a deliberately retrograde manner, John Currin's depictions of women nearly always induce a sense of the familiar, of having been seen before--framed on the wall of a doctor's office, spread-eagled in father's nudie magazine, glimpsed in a dra...
• 500 Self-portraits
  A new version of Phaidon classic published in 1937, this evocative and fascinating book presents 500 of the world's greatest self portraits, arranged in a simple chronological sequence from ancient time to the late 20th century....
• This Thing In The Mirror
• Girls In Pearls: The Story Of A Passion In Paintings And Photographs
  Symbols of affluence, power and social standing, pearls have been highly prized throughout history for their beauty and purity. Jewellery fashioned from these lustrous gems has adorned some of the world's most elegant women, from Cleopatra to Coco Chanel. This book brings together a fascinatin...
• Skating Minister: The Story Behind The Painting
  The finely balanced, black-clad figure of a minister skating on ice on a gray and wintry afternoon has become a Scottish icon. This is one of Scotland's most visited pictures....
• The Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition
• Children Of The Gilded Era: Portraits Of Sargent, Renoir, Cassatt And Their Contemporaries
  The perfect gift book, presenting a charming selection of portraits by John Singer Sargent and his contemporaries working in both the United States and Europe. Included are masterpieces and lesser-known works from the end of the nineteenth century, a golden age of style and luxury....
• Changing Perceptions: Milestones In Twentieth-century British Portraiture
• David Hockney Portraits
  David Hockney (b. 1937) is one of the most significant artists exploring and pushing the boundaries of figurative art today. Hockney has been engaged with portraiture since his teenage years, when he painted "Portrait of My Father" (1955), and his self-portraits and depictions of family, lovers, an...
• Americans
  A bakers' dozen of the best photographers of the past hundred years, from Helen Levitt and Gordon Parks to Nan Goldin and Ryan McGinley, are brought together here in a series of portfolios expanding on Robert Frank's Americans. Together they consider generations of social upheavals, crise...
• Celebrity Portraits: Practical Tips On Painting Portraits
  Alan Hydes, a TV artist, tells how he painted the portraits of many celebrities and gives useful hints, tips and practical advice on how to paint people, as well as several step-by-step portraits painted especially for the book. There are chapters on lighting the sitter, underpainting and facial st...
• Driving To Stony Lonesome: Jack Welpott's Indiana Photographs, 1936-1959
  Internationally acclaimed photographer Jack Welpott grew up in southern Indiana, served in World War II, and returned to the Hoosier state to attend Indiana University. Unsure of his direction, he enrolled in a photography class and met the legendary photography instructor Henry Holmes Smith. Under...
• The Portrait Book: A Guide For Photographers
  Get the vital information needed to make it as a portrait artist. Begleiter combines shooting techniques, interviews with the photo editors of Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and Vibe, and hard-won advice on how and where to find work....
• Facial Expressions: A Visual Reference For Artists
  All artists are tired of persuading their nearest and dearest to look sad...look glad...look mad...madder...no, even madder...okay, hold it. For those artists (and their long-suffering friends), here is the best book "ever. Facial Expressions includes more than 2,500 photographs of 50 faces—"...
• Betty Page Confidential
  Curvaceous, friendly and wholesome-looking, Playboy pinup Betty Page was the perfect compliment to the still-innocent fantasies of young men during the Eisenower years. Betty Page Confidential includes a biography of the reclusive goddess, an official Betty Page trivia quiz and 100 photos....
• The Figure In Watercolor: Simple, Fast, Focused
  Following in the footsteps of Watercolor: Simple, Fast, and Focused is Mel Stabin's latest: The Figure in Watercolor: Simple, Fast, and Focused. Capturing a figure's unique personality and multifaceted quality in watercolor is challenging — but Stabin demonstrates, step by step, how...
• Portrait Drawing
  Aimed at all those interested in drawing the human face, "Portrait Drawing" introduces a traditional method of teaching that uses a structured and natural process of continuous revision based on the principle of working from the general towards the particular. This enables the student to understand...
• Portrait Miniatures In National Trust Houses: Volume 2: Cornwall, Devon & Somerset
  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 rep...
• 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...
• Spanish Portrait From El Greco To Picasso: From El Greco To Picasso
  October 2004 saw the opening at the Museo del Prado of a major exhibition: The Spanish Portrait: From El Greco to Picasso. This magnificent book, published to accompany this unprecedented exhibition devoted to the Spanish portrait presents a survey of the development of this genre in Spanish art fr...
• The Art And Techniques Of Business Portrait Photography
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• Stones By Kruger
  A wild feast for any fan of rock and roll and contemporary art, Stones by Kruger captures the essence of the British rockers on canvas. Considered the finest caricature painter in the world, Sebastian Kruger created a remarkable collection of surreal, humorous portraits of Keith Richards, Mick Jagg...
• The Iconography Of Sir Isaac Newton To 1800
  Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) is rare among figures of the past for the number of authentic paintings, engravings and images of him which survive. He was painted by some nine different artists in the latter part of his life, and after his death both portraits and sculptures continued to proliferate,...
• 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...
• Portrait Miniature In Enamel: The Gilbert Collection
  A study of portrait miniatures in enamel from the Gilbert Collection. It proceeds from 17th-century portrait miniatures by German, French and Swiss enamelists to late-19th-century examples by Henry Bone and other English artists. The book contains comprehensive information on the art of enamels in ...
• Photographing People
  The vulnerability of an infant, the spontaneous actions of a child, the tenderness of a loving parent, or the mystery of the people you encounter on your travels.... These are precious moments for a photographer, and sharing them makes it that much more special. - Andre Gallant Whether capturin...
• How To Draw Portraits: A Step-by-step Guide For Beginners With 10 Projects
  A complete beginner should be amazed at what they can achieve by following the progressive series of demonstrations and learning from the tips, tricks and know-how of the experienced artist. Author Biography Susie Hodge has a passion for art education and has been teaching practical art and art...
• Two Faced
• Capturing Nureyev
  Painter James Wyeth first met Rudolf Nureyev in New York City in 1974. He was instantly intrigued with the dancer, so much so that Nureyev has continued to inspire him artistically for 24 years. Nureyev was one of the most photographed dancers in history. His image, as it was presented to the publi...
• On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, Second Edition
• 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...
• Roman Portraits
  Facsimile reprint of a classic Phaidon title, written and designed by the co-founder of the company, and containing 120 beautiful full-page plates of the powerfully realistic marble portraits for which the Romans were renowned Among the greatest artistic achievements of the Roman Empire are portrai...
• Introduction to Painting Portraits
• Holy Madness
• Rembrandt's Late Religious Portraits
• Sir Joshua Reynolds: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings
• John Singer Sargent: Portraits of the 1890s; Complete Paintings: Volume II
• John Singer Sargent: The Later Portraits; Complete Paintings: Volume III
• Pontormo, Bronzino, and the Medici: The Transformation of the Renaissance Portrait in Florence
• Portraiture
  This fascinating new book explores the world of portraiture from a number of vantage points, and asks key questions about its nature. How has portraiture changed over the centuries? How have portraits represented their subjects, and how have they been interpreted? Issues of identity, modernity, and...
• Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture
• Inventing Marcel Duchamp: The Dynamics of Portraiture
• The Drama of the Portrait: Theater and Visual Culture in Early Modern Spain
• Imagining Identity in New Spain: Race, Lineage, and the Colonial Body in Portraiture and Casta Paintings
• The Body in Time: Figures of Femininity in Late Nineteenth-Century France
• Ballyhoo!: Posters as Portraits
• Matisse Portraits
  An account of Henri Matisse's activity as a maker of portraits and self-portraits. The author considers the transaction that produces a portrait - a transaction between the artist and the sitter that is social as much as artistic - and investigates the social contexts of Matisse's sitters....
• Love and Loss: American Portrait and Mourning Miniatures
• The Art of Domestic Life: Family Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century England
• The Painted Face: Portraits of Women in France 1814-1914
• Alex Katz Paints Ada
• Perfect Likeness: European and American Portrait Miniatures from the Cincinnati Art Museum
• Thomas Eakins: Art, Medicine, and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia
• John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1874-1882; Complete Paintings: Volume IV
• Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s
• The Mirror & the Mask: Portraiture in the Age of Picasso
• Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered
• Paris Portraits: Artists, Friends, and Lovers
• Great Self-Portraits
• 120 Portrait Paintings [With Clip Art CD]
• Pictures of Innocence: The History and Crisis of Ideal Childhood
• Portraits of Tibetan Buddhist Masters
  Renowned photographer Don Farber, one of the most important chroniclers of Buddhism today, brings the face and the spirit of contemporary Tibetan Buddhism alive with this remarkable book. Portraits of Tibetan Buddhist Masters - a collection of superb color photographs presented with brief biographi...
• Early Hellenistic Portraiture: Image, Style, Context
• Virtue and Beauty: Leonardo's Ginevra de'Benci and Renaissance Portraits of Women
• Virtue and Beauty: Leonardo's Ginevra de' Benci and Renaissance Portraits of Women
• Picasso: The Cubist Portraits of Fernande Olivier
• Mother: Portraits by 40 Great Artists
• Draw Portraits
• Bp Portrait Award
• Portraits from Life in 29 Steps
  This book offers an elegant, simple and direct procedure for painting a convincing portrait in 29 logical steps. John Howard Sanden has developed this method over three decades of painting, demonstrating and teaching. At the heart of the book are two complete portrait-painting demstrations each of ...
• Capital Caricatures
• Baby Bird Portraits by George Miksch Sutton: Watercolors in the Field Museum
• Memling and the Art of Portraiture
• Portrait Miniatures from Scottish Private Collections
• The Naked Portrait: 1900 to 2007
• How to Draw the Head in Light and Shade
  Features the human head in various conceivable poses and illuminations, from bright light to gentle shade. This work offers drawings of various age groups - from children to senior citizens - and provides advice on proportion, foreshortening, and other aspects of head construction....