Human figures Depicted in Art

This book reveals the wealth of British and European miniatures preserved in Scottish private collections, most of which are not normally on show t...

Mogudan Illust Works is the first artbook from near 20 year veteran of manga and hentai, Mogudan. Collecting over 95 full color pages, Mogudan’s ar...

The follow up to Black Tights, DEEP takes on a number of new illustrators and comic artists as they share their appreciation for tights, leggings a...

'I blame the pencil. I hadn't meant to do it. I wasn't thinking. It just happened that way.' In March 2020, as lockdowns were imposed around the ...

Henry James Framed is a cultural history of Henry James as a work of art. Throughout his life, James demonstrated an abiding interest in—some would...

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

Elizabeth Gwillim (1763–1807) and her sister Mary Symonds (1772–1854) produced over two hundred watercolours depicting birds, fish, flowers, people...

A richly illustrated collection of previously unpublished drawings by the famed modern artistThe French-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle is bes...

Through its provocative examination of feminist and Marxist approaches to women's art and female representations, this book challenges the widespre...

This manual offers techniques that visually simplify and refine the study of the body's muscles and skeleton into concepts that can easily be used ...

Praised by critics and teachers alike for more than forty years, Burne Hogarth's Dynamic Anatomy is recognised worldwide as the classic, indispensa...

Solitary Pleasures is the first anthology to address masturbation, exploring both the history and artistic representation of autoeroticism. Masturb...

Solitary Pleasures is the first anthology to address masturbation, exploring both the history and artistic representation of autoeroticism. Masturb...

In First Things Mary Jacobus combines close readings with theoretical concerns in an examination of the many forms taken by the mythic or phantasmi...

This superbly illustrated volume is a tribute to David Bowie, who was an inspiration to several generations of musicians, artists, and performers a...

It is still routinely repeated that representations of the unclothed body in the Middle Ages connoted a site of corruption and sin, in contrast to ...

Reconciling Art and Mothering contributes a chorus of new voices to the burgeoning body of scholarship on art and the maternal and, for the first t...

Emphasizing the peculiar, the perverse, the clandestine and the scandalous, this volume opens up a critical discourse on sexuality and visual cultu...

Newly revised and expanded, this second edition of Timon Screech's definitive "Sex and the Floating World" offers a real assessment of the genre of...

The sensuous human form-elegant and eye-catching-is the dominant feature of premodern Indian art. From the powerful god Shiva, greatest of all yogi...

This book covers a subject that has never previously been addressed, and yet it is both a fascinating and a provocative one: the representation of ...

There is a popular and romantic myth about Rembrandt and the Jewish people. One of history's greatest artists, we are often told, had a special aff...

Spuren halten die Zeit als Form fest und machen Vergangenes gegenwärtig sichtbar. Als solche sind sie auch in der Moderne ein fundamentales Mittel ...

Seit Jahrtausenden werden bewegliche Menschenfiguren gefertigt. Die Varianten der Gattung „Gliederpuppe" reichen von einfachen Statuetten über stan...

Wie definierte sich im päpstlichen Rom der Spielraum, in dem Frauen wie Artemisia Gentileschi oder Giovanna Garzoni künstlerisch agieren konnten? A...

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

This edited scholarly volume offers a perspective on the history of the genre of the nude in the Middle East and includes contributions written by ...

École de Paris steht seit jeher für die internationale Pariser Kunstszene zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts, untrennbar verbunden mit auratischen Name...

This book analyzes the philosophical origins of dualism in portraiture in Western culture during the Classical period, through to contemporary mode...

Women at Work: 1900 to Now reveals the sometimes overlooked stories of women from 1900 to the present day who have shaped history and culture in Br...

Mausoleum of Imperfection is a collection of picturesque and satirical portraits made by Slavko Krunić that refute the idea of separation between t...

National Portrait Gallery: The Collection introduces the key people who have shaped the history of Britain, its culture and identity, by exploring ...

Moving with the Magdalen is the first art-historical book dedicated to the cult of Mary Magdalen in the late medieval Alps. Its seven case study ch...

This is the first scholarly study to focus on satirical prints of women in the late eighteenth century. The period c.1760-1800 was the golden age o...

Sometimes enjoying considerable favor, sometimes less, iconography has been an essential element in medieval art historical studies since the begin...

This edited scholarly volume offers a perspective on the history of the genre of the nude in the Middle East and includes contributions written by ...

Der Basler Druckerverleger Pietro Perna legte mit seiner zwischen 1575 und 1578 gedruckten Neuausgabe der Schriften des italienischen Historikers P...

Akademische Aktstudien widmen sich dem vornehmsten Gegenstand der Kunst überhaupt: dem menschlichen Körper in Ruhe und Bewegung. Diese grundlegende...

After the death of Urban VIII, the Barberini experienced one of the worst crises ever endured by a papal family. However, they also succeeded at a ...

This book analyzes the philosophical origins of dualism in portraiture in Western culture during the Classical period, through to contemporary mode...