Human figures Depicted in Art

The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Drawing Figures! To draw an anatomical figure, you don't need a stack of weighty anatomy books. Just take it ste...

Summer in Paris. British art student Adam King undertakes an internship at a contemporary art museum. An encounter with an unusual collective of yo...

Elizabeth Peyton s work has been acclaimed since the early 1990s, when she began exhibiting her intimate portraits of artists, musicians, historica...

The figure of a woman reclining, in repose, displayed, abandoned, fallen, asleep, or dreaming, returns in the work of women filmmakers and photogra...

'When the last fire goes out, time too will be finished'Italo Calvino was one of the most joyful and imaginative writers of the twentieth century. ...

In 2016 and 2017, Diana Widmaier-Picasso curated two exhibitions for Gagosian: the first gathered works from the collection of her mother, Maya Rui...

Victoria Crowe is one of the world''s most vital and original figurative painters. Her instantly recognisable work is represented in a large number...

The first book highlighting the historical roots and contemporary implications of the silhouette as an American art formBefore the advent of photog...

A biography of the great portraitist Frans Hals that takes the reader into the turbulent world of the Dutch Golden Age. Frans Hals was one ...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, MAI...

Erotic encounters have been celebrated by artists from the beginning of time. This irresistible volume presents 120 of the most engagingly erotic p...

BE GUIDED BY YOUR DESIRE AND UNLOCK YOUR EROTIC POTENTIAL. Deepen your personal tarot journey with a focus on love and pleasure. This fully illustr...

The story of the nude in art in our times, told by a popular art historian with a rare gift for sharing her passions and ideas. The representati...