Human figures Depicted in Art

Exploring the career and legacy of the artist Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, whose sculptural figures embody her uncompromising sovereignty over her work...

The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure edited by Ekow Eshun celebrates flourishing Black artists whose work illuminates the richn...

'What happens when Black artists depict Black figures? What art does this produce, and what worlds of possibility does this reveal?' - Ekow Eshun ...

Elizabeth Sears here combines rich visual material and textual evidence to reveal the sophistication, warmth, and humor of medieval speculations ab...

Since TASCHEN released The Great American Pin-up, international interest in this distinctly American art form has increased exponentially. Painting...

In 1998, TASCHEN introduced the world to the masterful art of Touko Laaksonen with The Art of Pleasure. Prior to that, Laaksonen, better known as T...

From the dawn of time, ever since Adam and Eve, all artists of every agewhether the Egyptian, Greek, or Roman artists of Antiquity, or more recent ...

The first commercial camera was introduced in 1839. By 1865 technology enabled ordinary men to create photographic negatives, and they immediately ...

Feel the fear and draw faces anyway! Many beginner artists feel intimidated by drawing portraits - getting faces and anatomy in proportion can seem...

Italian court culture of the fifteenth century was a golden age, gleaming with dazzling princes, splendid surfaces, and luminous images that separa...

Presents a new multidisciplinary perspective on portraiture in the era of post-digital media Extends the domain of portraiture to include not ju...

We owe a great debt to Jean Baptiste Marc Bourgery (17971849) for his Atlas of Anatomy, which was not only a massive event in medical history, but ...

The dry, wrinkled skin, crows feet and rheumy eyes of old women can be seen universally; yet the actual images and their meaning differ widely, and...

Latin Blackness in Parisian Visual Culture, 1852-1932 examines an understudied visual language used to portray Latin Americans in mid-19th to early...

Frank Frazetta has reigned as the undisputed king of fantasy art for 50 years, his fame only growing in the 12 years since his death. With his pain...

Comprehensive view and new research on the fascinating painter of New Objectivity. The German-Swedish painter Lotte Laserstein (1898-1993) is one...

Lasersteins current reputation as a great realist has assigned her an undisputed place in the 20th-century art history. Striking portraits, self-po...

Ashley Longshore delivers exactly what her fans are clamoring for: a look at Ashley s big life, her audacious aphorisms, and of course her sumptuou...

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

Learn to draw perfect portraits with this primer from Fernanda Soares de Carvalho, the artist behind @creativenanda. Fernanda is a self-taught arti...

From elite officers to ordinary sailors, the portrayal of naval personnel has been a significant branch of British art for over 500 years. The Nati...

Esther Pressoir: A Modern Womans Painter situates Esther Estelle Pressoirs body of work within the effervescent art scene of the early 20th century...

Lady Gaga, Jilet Aye, Müslüm, Andy Warhol and Sun Ra are nationally and internationally known artistic characters. This publication deals with arti...

Writing has not always been considered a suitable career for women. Indeed, it was once common for women authors to adopt a masculine pseudonym in ...

The artistic gaze into the mirror Egon Schiele personally and in close-up. Many artists share the desire for involvement with the self and their...