Painting & Paintings

Airfix has been commercially producing plastic kits since 1952 and its models have been made by successive generations of young boys and men alike....

British artist Euan Uglow (1932–2000) maintained a lower profile than others of his generation, yet his beautiful, intelligent, humane, and often w...

A year of weekly interviews (1949-1950) with artist Diego Rivera by poet Alfredo Cardona-Peña disclose Rivera’s iconoclastic views of life and the ...

In this classic text, James Elkins communicates the experience of painting beyond the traditional vocabulary of art history. Alchemy provides a str...

Originally published in 1950, this book shows that the religious and ethical values that St. Francis was striving after are as essential today as t...

Von wem und wodurch erfuhren die Landschaftsmaler um 1800 von der neuen Malerei im Freien? Malpraktische und theoretische Kenntnisse wurden meist z...

The Scenic Charge Artist’s Toolkit is a comprehensive guide to managing a theatrical paint shop. This book introduces the many different options av...

A sly and playful novel about the many faces we all have. Fifteen-year-old Berta says that beautiful things aren’t made for her, she isn’t destined...

Written by a lover of Florence, The Heart of the Renaissance describes the Christian traditions and legends, as well as the Greek myths, shown in t...

During the Victorian period there developed a new anxiety about male-female relations and roles in modern society, as described by a member of the ...

Eine Minute und dreißig Sekunden ist die durchschnittliche Länge, die für einen Beitrag in einem Nachrichtenblock vorgesehen ist. Die Künstlerin Mo...

Herkomer: A Victorian artist is a study of the life and work of the Victorian portraitist and social-realist painter, a self-made polymath whose bo...

The Tower of Blue Horses by Franz Marc, confiscated as "degenerate" and missing since then, Emil Nolde’s "Unpainted Pictures" from the time of his ...

This fully illustrated study examines the construction of masculinity in culture based on an analysis of pictorial representations of the male in a...

Hurtle Duffield is incapable of loving anything except what he paints. The men and women who court him during his long life are, above all, the vic...

    Make art with no-mess, quick-drying shimmer sticks! Finally, there's a way to have your very own paint studio with ...

Bartolomé de Cárdenas, known as "el Bermejo" (fl 1468-1495), was the most interesting painter of his generation in a time of great artistic and cul...

Using the still, small and sombre image of "Christ Mocked" by Bosch as a basis, this book works around the painting in five 'circles' to explore th...

The American artist John La Farge preceded Gauguin to the Pacific, and in their time his reputation as the modern Pacific painter far overshadowed ...

This is a detailed study of the illustrations to Amir Khusrau's Khamsah, in which twenty discourses are followed by a brief parable, and four roman...

Surrealism and the Exotic is the story of the obsessive relationship between surrealist and non-western culture. Describing the travels across Afri...

Johannes Vermeer's luminous paintings are loved and admired around the world, yet we do not understand how they were made. We see sunlit spaces; th...

Offering a corrective to the common scholarly characterization of seventeenth-century Dutch landscape painting as modern, realistic and secularized...

Acrylics are a versatile and exciting medium, but how can you get the most from these paints? This book shows you how. With step-by-step examples...

Andrew Motion's first work of biography won a Somerset Maugham Award in 1987.'A biographical triumph.' Observer'The story of the three Lamberts is ...

Ann Blockley is a very successful artist, known for the innovative way in which she uses texture as a key element in her work. This book, in Collin...

Edvard Munch (1863–1944) has attained lasting fame for paintings and prints—above all The Scream— that express the isolation and anxieties of the m...

The study of technical treatises in Indian art has increasingly attracted much interest. This work puts forward a critical re-examination of the ke...

The premise of Anna Green's timely and original book, is that nineteenth-century representations of childhood and adolescence-in paintings, but als...

The remarkable plein air paintings of Liu Xiaodong (b.1963), which chronicle everyday lives within our diverse modern world, are the focus of this ...