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Sub-Categories of Human figures depicted in art
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The Art of Being Bill: Bill Murray and the Many Faces of Awesome
Ezra Croft, Jennifer Raiser
Portraits in art; Individual actors & performers; Gift books
Hardback
The Art of Being Bill is a curated collection of nearly 150 artworks featuring the amazingly awesome Bill Murray. [more]
Female Portraiture and Patronage in Marie Antoinette's Court: The Princesse...
Sarah Grant
History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800; Exhibition catalogues & specific collections; Portraits in art; Social & cultural history; Gender studies: women
Hardback
This comprehensive book brings to light the portraits, private collections and public patronage of the princesse de Lamballe,... [more]
The Anatomy Sketchbook
Drawing & drawings; Human figures depicted in art
Paperback
Unveil the extraordinary architecture of the human anatomy through centuries of artistic wisdom. [more]
Michael Jackson: On The Wall
Nicholas Cullinan
Portraits in art; Rock & Pop music; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups
Hardback
Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name held at the National Portrait Gallery, London, June 28-October 21,... [more]
Madam and Eve: Women Portraying Women
Liz Rideal, Kathleen Soriano
Art & design styles: from c 1960; Human figures depicted in art; Gender studies: women
Hardback
How do women paint or photograph each other? How do they represent each other in performance or sculpture? As mothers or heroines?... [more]
Manuel Neri: The Human Figure in Plaster and on Paper
Director Jock Reynolds
Drawing & drawings; Sculpture; Individual artists, art monographs; Human figures depicted in art; Art techniques & principles
Hardback
This engaging publication examines the prodigious body of work of American sculptor Manuel Neri (b. 1930) through the unique... [more]
Emma Hamilton and Late Eighteenth-Century European Art: Agency, Performance,...
Ersy Contogouris
History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800; Portraits in art; Social & cultural history; Feminism & feminist theory; Gender studies: women
Hardback
Outgrowth of the author's thesis (doctoral--Universit e de Montr eal, 2014) under the title: Emma Hamilton, a model of agency... [more]
The Italian Renaissance Nude
Jill Burke
Art & Architecture; Renaissance art; Human figures depicted in art
Hardback
The first scholarly monograph to focus on the inception of the Italian Renaissance nude, this lively study subverts the idea... [more]
First World War Poets
Alan Judd, David Crane
History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Portraits in art; Poetry anthologies
Paperback
The National Portrait Gallery's series of compact, fully illustrated, historical guides to literary and artisticpersonalities... [more]
What Great Paintings Say. Beautiful Nudes
Rainer & Rose-Marie Hagen, Rainer Hagen
Art styles not defined by date; Exhibition catalogues & specific collections; Nudes depicted in art
Hardback
Art history's most important nudes bare all in this fascinating investigation into the covert historical and narrative details... [more]
What Great Paintings Say. Faces of Power
Rainer & Rose-Marie Hagen, Rainer Hagen
History of Art & Design Styles; Portraits in art
Hardback
Discover the hidden details concealed within depictions of powerful figures of the past, from the sixth-century prostitute... [more]
Academie Royale: A History in Portraits
Hannah Williams
History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800; Portraits in art; European history; Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700
Paperback
From its establishment in 1648 until its disbanding in 1793 after the French Revolution, the Academie Royale de Peinture et... [more]
Van Gogh and Music: A Symphony in Blue and Yellow
Natascha Veldhorst
Art & Architecture; History of Art & Design Styles; Individual artists, art monographs; Human figures depicted in art
Hardback
Ah! . . . to make of painting what the music of Berlioz and Wagner has been before us . . . a consolatory art for distressed... [more]
Black Out: Silhouettes Then and Now
Asma Naeem
History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Exhibition catalogues & specific collections; Portraits in art
Hardback
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. in association with Princeton University Press, Princeton... [more]
Ralph Gibson. Nude
Eric Fischl, Unknown
Nudes depicted in art; Individual photographers; Photographs: portraits; Erotic & nude photography
Hardback
Master photographer Ralph Gibson returns with an exquisite collection of nudes, combining the best of his work with an in-depth... [more]
Portraiture and Critical Reflections on Being
Euripides Altintzoglou (University of Wolverhampton)
History of Art & Design Styles; Portraits in art; Philosophy: aesthetics
Hardback
This book analyzes the philosophical origins of dualism in portraiture in Western culture during the Classical period, through... [more]
Paul Cezanne: Painting People
Marie Tompkins Lewis
Art & design styles: Impressionism & Post-Impressionism; Individual artists, art monographs; Human figures depicted in art
Paperback
Paul Cezanne (1839 - 1906) painted almost 200 portra its, including twenty - six of himself and twenty - nine of his wife... [more]
500 Self-Portraits
Liz Rideal, Julian Bell
Art & Architecture; Portraits in art
Hardback
A compelling collection of self-portraits from throughout recorded history, revised to include captivating contemporary works... [more]
The Art of Colour and the Human Form: Seven Motif Sketches of Rudolf Steiner:...
Dr Rudolf Steiner, Gerard Wagner
History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Human figures depicted in art; Art techniques & principles
Hardback
Based on Rudolf Steiner's indications, Gerard Wagner shows a wholly new approach to the human form in art. The Art of Colour... [more]
Morpho
Michel Lauricella
The Arts: General & Reference; Drawing & drawings; Human figures depicted in art; Art techniques & principles; Reference works
Spiral bound
In this book, Michel Lauricella presents both his artistic and systematic methods for drawing the human body--with drawing... [more]
Flowers of Perversion: The Delirious Cinema of Jesus Franco
Stephen Thrower, Julian Grainger
Electronic, holographic & video art; Erotic art; Individual film directors, film-makers; Biography: arts & entertainment
Hardback
The disturbing, exciting, and defiantly avant-garde films of Jesus Jess Franco, director of such films as Vampyros Lesbos... [more]
Pissing Figures
Jean Claude Lebensztejn, Jeff Nagy
Theory of art; Human figures depicted in art
Paperback
Jean - Claude Lebensztejn's history of the urinating figure in art, Pissing Figures 1280 - 2014, is at once a scholarly inquiry... [more]
Jane Austen and her World
Josephine Ross
Portraits in art; Biography: literary
Paperback
To coincide with the bicentenary of Jane Austen's death ( and her appearance on English banknotes ) in July 2017, this illuminating... [more]
Charles White: Black Pope
Esther Adler
Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960; Individual artists, art monographs; Human figures depicted in art; Black & Asian studies
Hardback
Charles White (1918-1979) was an artist, a teacher and an activist. Through a close examination of White's late masterwork... [more]
The Nude Sketchbook: Learn the art of drawing from the masters
Drawing & drawings; Nudes depicted in art; Painting & art manuals
Paperback
The ultimate exercise book for any original, training the eye, the hand and the mind. [more]
