Human figures Depicted in Art

The portrait has been characterized as an art-form of contradictions since its very beginnings to the art of today. The genre is faced with the cha...

Future Bodies from a Recent Past brings to life a hitherto little-noticed phenomenon in art and sculpture in particular: the reciprocal interpenetr...

The premise of this volume is that the ubiquity of lactation imagery in early modern visual culture and the discourse on breastfeeding in humanist,...

This is the first book to concentrate on Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Halss highly innovative approach to male portraiture. Frans Hals is one of...

An eye-opening presentation of largely unknown figurative drawings by a renowned pioneer of abstraction Featuring one hundred figurative works on p...

The endless expressive potential of the human body, from portraiture and social satire to fantasy and erotica The Expressionist Figure documents a...

Character Design Quarterly (CDQ) is a lively, creative magazine bringing inspiration, expert insights, and leading techniques from professional ill...

Vienna combines drama and elegance like no other. For centuries the heart of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the stately city on the Danube, has been ...

As scholars debate the most appropriate way to teach evolutionary theory, Constance Areson Clark provides an intriguing reflection on similar debat...

This latest volume in a hugely successful series showcases inspiring character concepts from the imaginations of 50 artists. Following the success ...

Erstmals wird hier die Bildnissammlung der österreichischen Erzherzogin Maria Anna (1738-1789), Tochter Maria Theresias und Franz Stephans von Loth...

Zum Überleben sind Sterbliche gezwungen, sich zu bewegen und tätig zu werden. Um diesen Willen samt dahinter verborgenen Absichten den Mitmenschen,...

In 1965, Tom of Finland began flirting with the idea of an ongoing character for his panel stories, the ultimate Toms Man. He tried out a blond nam...

Sensual and softly surreal, the nude photography of Ralph Gibson frames the female form both organically and graphically, referencing art history w...

It has long been thought that imperial portrait types were officially commissioned to commemorate specific historical moments and that they were ma...