Portraits in Art

Through some 50 works, this book seeks to establish a dialogue between the different ways of approaching the exercise of self-portrait: firstly bet...

In 1904, Saxon artist Oskar Zwintscher painted the portrait of a lady smoking a cigarette. Today, the work has cult status at the Albertinum in Dre...

Recent events have pushed artists to visualize ideas of closeness in a new light. Kinship, published on the occasion of the National Portrait Galle...

The exhibition "Space/Sight/Self" was designed to study the role of portraiture in contemporary art as a nexus of three issues - identity, vision a...

The rise of democratic ideals and the burgeoning middle class of the late 19th and early 20th centuries precipitated an important surge in the prev...

The contributions to this book explore a phenomenon that appears to be a contradiction in itself – we, the users of computers, can be tracked in di...

One of the most fascinating aspects of Rembrandt's extraordinary artistic career is his suite of brooding half-length portraits of religious figure...

One of the most prolific and influential artists of the 20th century, Jean Dubuffet has featured in a multitude of exhibitions and catalogues. Yet ...

'Faces of Power and Piety' is the second in the Medieval Imagination series of small, affordable books that draw on manuscript illuminations in the...

Faces of Impressionism explores the development of the portrait in French painting and sculpture between 1860 and 1910 as showcased in one of the w...

The Body in Time looks at two different genres in relation to the construction of femininity in late nineteenth-century France: Degas's representat...

Anyone who has strolled through the halls of a museum knows that portraits occupy a central place in the history of art. But did portraits, as such...

This survey exhibition captures the arc and continued ascent of contemporary artist Beverly McIver.  This exhibition catalog accompanies a survey e...

Learn to draw people of all ages and ethnicities through easy-to-follow instruction and 20 step-by-step projects.From social media star and profess...

Contemplating the Ancients: Aesthetic and Social Issues in Early Chinese Portraiture delves into the intriguing world of ancient Chinese art, explo...

‘Excellent, full of tiny details that expand our knowledge of even the best-known Tudors’ – Lucy Davies, The Telegraph Situating the Tudor dynasty,...

A major survey of contemporary artist Hung Liu, whose layered portraits explore history and memory through the stories of marginalized figuresHung ...

Self-portraiture shows no sign of losing its ability to capture the public imagination. Given our current proclivity to snap and share ‘selfies’ in...