Human figures Depicted in Art

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...

Designed to address beginning to intermediate artists, this book is the ultimate guide to portraiture and figure painting in watercolour. It guides...

Featuring 25 drawings in charcoal, conte crayons, and pastels, this handbook pairs portraits of people who live and work along the U.S./Mexico bord...