Human figures Depicted in Art

Amedeo Modigliani (1884–1920) moved to Paris as a 22-year-old art student and is regarded as probably the last true bohémien in Montmartre. The exh...

In this innovative guide, master art instructor William Maughan demonstrates how to create a realistic human likeness by using the classic and high...

An inspiring account of three women artists who pioneered new forms of the nude.Even in the bohemian world of avant-garde Paris, certain rules had ...

The Herbert Smith Freehills Portrait Award is one of Britain’s most prestigious art prizes, and is the leading showcase for artists throughout the ...

All artists are tired of persuading their nearest and dearest to look sad...look glad...look mad...madder...no, even madder...okay, hold it. For th...

Philip de Lászlo, following a meteoric rise to recognition in his native Hungary, settled in Britain in 1907 and became the leading portrait-painte...

Holbein’s Ambassadors is one of the most famous paintings in the National Gallery. It is also one of the most intriguing. Laden with hidden symbol...

Join man’s best friend on a walk through art history.From ancient Egyptian busts to 1960s screenprints, portraiture is an historic art form beloved...

Dripping latex, collapsed rubber tubes, and visceral forms — these were the raw materials of a radical 1960s art movement, where objects transform...

The astonishing debut monograph from contemporary abstract expressionist painter Genesis Tramaine Gimme Some Sugar is the much-anticipated first mo...

Bringing together the work of forty young artists, Reflex seeks to present the voice of young Japan through their own unique brand of self-portrait...

New Orleans artist George Valentine Dureau (1930–2014) has always been an enigma. His status as an important artist gained momentum beginning with ...

An Open Access edition is available. The Visual Worlds of Life Writing brings into conversation the two most popular genres in long-eighteenth-cent...

When L. Frank and Marina Drummer went on the road in 2002, they set out to visit as many people from different California tribes as possible. Criss...

Challenging prevailing theories regarding the birth of the subject, Catherine M. Soussloff argues that the modern subject did not emerge from psych...

Challenging prevailing theories regarding the birth of the subject, Catherine M. Soussloff argues that the modern subject did not emerge from psych...

**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** A hilarious collection of Hercule Van Wolfwinkle's 'extremely realis...

First published in 1984. The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries represent not only era of rapidly changing artistic methods but a crucia...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM MB BERGER PRIZE FOR BRITISH ART HISTORY 2022A major survey of Dame Laura Knight, first female Royal Academician and popu...

This title was first published in 2000: In their stunning simplicity, George Romney's portraits of eighteenth-century gentry and their children are...

Nineteenth-century Iran was an ocularcentered society predicated on visuality and what was seen and unseen, and photographs became liminal sites of...

Religion and sex, body and soul, sacred and profane: In Closet Devotions, Richard Rambuss traces the relays between these cultural formations by ex...

Although mastery of the representation of the human figure was central to art making as early as the fifteenth century in Europe, in the nineteenth...

Focusing on images of or produced by well-to-do nineteenth-century European women, this volume explores genteel femininity as resistant to easy cod...

This book reveals how art and sex promoted the desire for the genetically perfect body. Its eight chapters demonstrate that before eugenics was sti...

Portraits of Violence explores the image and idea of facial disfigurement in one of its most troubling modern formations, as a symbol and consequen...

The first monograph to examine the depiction of reading women in French art of the early Third Republic, Women Readers in French Painting 1870-1890...

First published in 1984. The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries represent not only era of rapidly changing artistic methods but a crucia...

This special issue of Paragraph, Volume 26 Numbers 1 and 2, brings together differing approaches (from a diverse range of disciplines) to the quest...

Exactly ten years after the publication of Freeze Frame - Douglas Kirkland's initial compilation of his illustrious career photographing the world'...

The National Gallery started life in 1824 when the British government purchased the collection of 38 pictures belonging to the estate of wealthy ba...

A remarkable collection of prison "portraiture" photos

Sketches and drawings are the foundations of great art, where thoughts and concepts first come to life as an image. In Sketching from the Imaginati...

A remarkable collection of prison "portraiture" photos

The essential book for any fashion student or designer who wants to create stunning fashion illustrations quickly but lacks either the time or the ...

Many of today's emerging artists are using portraiture or self-portraiture to explore complex issues of identity. At the same time, these artists a...

Melanie Klein was a Viennese psychoanalyst who extended the work of Sigmund Freud in significant and innovative ways. She lived and worked in the U...

A fresh take on a beloved masterpiece of portraiture, focusing on the complex significance of the color pink in eighteenth-century France François ...

This title was first published in 2000: In their stunning simplicity, George Romney's portraits of eighteenth-century gentry and their children are...

Concepts of identity are complex and changing, and in this book Katherine Hoffman examines images of individuals and families from ancient Egypt to...

Pictures of women portrayed as professional, athletic, and intellectual seem common to us today, but until the late nineteenth century, such repres...