Human figures Depicted in Art

With this book, Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen brings a new formal and conceptual rubric to the study of turn-of-the-century modernism, transforming our...

***''Figure Drawing is structured like an art school course and is every bit as rewarding.'' Artists and IllustratorsInformative and instructive, t...

Written by a long-time expert on drawing and painting human anatomy, Classic Human Anatomy in Motion offers artists everything they need to realist...

The first book to celebrate the beautiful and provocative ways artists have represented, scrutinized and utilized the body over centuries.Body of A...

Mickalene Thomas's vivid paintings, collages, and photographs explode off the wall. Their larger-than-life women stare back and down at the viewer,...

First book to place the art of British sculptor Lynn Chadwick in its international context. Examines in particular the reception and promotion of C...

How do women paint or photograph each other? How do they represent each other in performance or sculpture? As mothers or heroines? With tenderness,...

Renowned paleoartist John Gurche brings the traditional techniques of figure drawing and anatomical art to the portrayal of our hominin ancestors. ...

Paul Cézanne (1839 1906) painted almost 200 portra its, including twenty - six of himself and twenty - nine of his wife . This book presents twe...

Human forms can be intensely intimate or broadly universal. Here, figurative artists use the human form as a tool to express varied content and con...

An Authoritative, Comprehensive Guide for Contemporary Figurative Artists At a time when renewed interest in figurative art is surging throughout t...

In the 1960s, art patron Dominique de Menil founded an image archive showing the ways that people of African descent have been represented in Weste...

Basic Human Anatomy teaches artists the simple yet powerful formula artists have used for centuries to draw the human figure from the inside out A ...

A groundbreaking reassessment of the reinvention of portraiture in America between 1945 and 1975 - the period when the abstract expressionists reac...

In August 1960, Anna Halprin taught an experimental workshop attended by Simone Forti and Yvonne Rainer (along with Trisha Brown and other soon-to-...

Drawing the human body is a creative process, but one which relies on an accurate rendition of the form. This practical book explains anatomy for ...

A groundbreaking, in-depth exploration of the movement and flexibility of the human body, featuring 1,000 stunning black-and-white photographs that...

Lucian Freud (19222011) was interested in the telling of truths. Always operating outside the main currents of 20th-century art, the esteemed portr...

The 18th-century painter Johan Zoffany (17331810) was an astute observer of the many social circles in which he functioned as an artist over the co...