Human figures Depicted in Art

The British painter Francis Bacon (19091992) is famed for his idiosyncratic mode of depicting the human figure. Thirty years after his death, his w...

Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World is the first book to focus on the individualized portrayal of enslaved people from the time of Europe's ful...

Tamara Natalie Madden was born in Jamaica and settled in the USA. Her life was blighted by illness, but she found solace and success in art, creati...

Leading modernist sculptor Barbara Hepworth (190375) moved to beautiful St Ives, Cornwall with her husband Ben Nicholson and their children in 1939...

Condragulations queen, you're now ready to add some extra zhuzh to your day with Art of Drag! Each of the 12 original artworks in this calendar fea...

The popularity of the comic performers of late-Georgian and Regency England and their frequent depiction in portraits, caricatures and prints is be...

The blank page can be daunting, but 10 Step Drawing: Faces offers an easy jumping-off point for any doodler to get into simple portraiture. Feat...

In an abandoned storage unit in Philadelphia, a collector discovered more than 150 works on paper by a presumably self-taught artist. The works fal...

From 1889 to 1914 nude spectacles increased at an astonishing rate as a result of burgeoning artistic experimentation, the commercialization of the...

'Exhilarating and fascinating' KATY HESSEL | 'Rich and detailed' CHLOË ASHBY | 'Enlightening' TABISH KHAN | 'Sheds light on an uncharted area of ar...

Edouard Manet s Le Dejeuner sur l herbe (1863) is generally cited as the first modern painting. The entry slide in art history lectures about moder...

This curated survey of more than 600 images shows how graphic designers have pushed the classic traditions of nude figure painting and drawing in t...

Tracing the final 30 years of Michelangelos career, this book examines how the great master used art and faith to explore the common human experien...