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Sub-Categories of Human figures depicted in art
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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]
Murillo: The Self-Portraits
Xavier F. Salomon, Letizia Treves
Individual artists, art monographs; Exhibition catalogues & specific collections; Portraits in art
Hardback
This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition Murillo: The Self-Portraits, on view at The Frick Collection... [more]
Figure Drawing Methods for Artists: Over 130 Methods for Sketching, Drawing,...
Peter Boerboom, Tim Proetel
Drawing & drawings; Human figures depicted in art; Art techniques & principles
Paperback
Figure Drawing Methods for Artists demonstrates how figure in a particular posture can be assembled with a few key characteristic... [more]
The Art of the Erotic
Phaidon Editors
Erotic art
Hardback
Carefully curated and beautifully packaged erotic art through the ages - 170 works from the world's most important artists... [more]
Women, Femininity and Public Space in European Visual Culture, 1789-1914...
Temma Balducci, Heather Belnap Jensen
History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; Human figures depicted in art
Paperback
Focusing on images of or produced by nineteenth-century European women, this volume explores genteel femininity as resistant... [more]
Selfie: The Changing Face of Self Portraits
Susie Brooks
Portraits in art; Art: general interest (Children's&YA)
Paperback
Think the 'selfie' is a modern phenomenon...? Think again! [more]
The Art of Drawing Folds: An Illustrator's Guide to Drawing the Clothed...
Kelly Brine
Human figures depicted in art; Illustration; Graphical & digital media applications
Hardback
<em>The Art of Drawing Folds: An Illustrator's Guide to Drawing the Clothed Figure</em> reveals the common and predictable... [more]
National Portrait Gallery: 100 Portraits
Nicholas Cullinan
Portraits in art
Paperback
100 Portraits presents a selection of images of significant individuals who have shaped the last four centuries of British... [more]
Mondo Erotica: The Art Of Roberto Baldazzini
Roberto Baldazzini
Erotic art; Comic book & cartoon art
Hardback
Baldazzini is an angel who lets us see the blinding dream of our desires... - Moebius ...totally convincing and compelling.... [more]
Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun: Behind the mask, another mask
Sarah Howgate, Dawn Ades
Art & design styles: Surrealism & Dada; Art & design styles: from c 1960; Individual artists, art monographs; Portraits in art
Hardback
Claude Cahun and Gillian Wearing came from different backgrounds and different times - about a century apart. Together with... [more]
Howard Hodgkin: Absent Friends
Paul Moorhouse
History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Painting & paintings; Individual artists, art monographs; Portraits in art
Hardback
Hodgkin's art can be seen as providing memorials for people, many of whom are friends, whose absence is countered by the corresponding... [more]
Representing Duchess Anna Amalia's Bildung: A Visual Metamorphosis in Portraiture...
Christina K. Lindeman
Art: financial aspects; History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800; Portraits in art
Hardback
The cultural milieu in the Age of Goethe of eighteenth-century Germany is given fresh context in this art historical study... [more]
BP Portrait Award 2016
Ali Smith, Nicholas Cullinan
Portraits in art
Paperback
Featuring works from an international list of artists, the BP Portrait Award highlights the vitality of portrait painting... [more]
Re-framing Representations of Women: Figuring, Fashioning, Portraiting and...
Dr. Susan Shifrin
History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Portraits in art; Gender studies: women
Paperback
Explores the processes inherent in gender representation. This study offers scholarship that confronts historical patterns... [more]
Portrait of the Artist
Anna Reynolds, Lucy Peter
Exhibition catalogues & specific collections; Portraits in art
Hardback
Focuses on self-portraits and other images of the artist from within the Royal Collection. This book showcases self-portraits... [more]
Eros and Sexuality in Islamic Art
Dr. Francesca Leoni, Dr. Mika Natif
History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art; History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600; Erotic art
Paperback
Dedicated to the topic of eroticism and sexuality in the visual production of the medieval and early modern Muslim world,... [more]
The Invention of the Model: Artists and Models in Paris, 1830-1870
Susan Waller
History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; Human figures depicted in art; Gender studies: women
Paperback
Presents a study of the artist's model in Paris between 1830 and 1870. An exploration of a major issue in nineteenth-century... [more]
Beautiful People of the Cafe Society: Scrapbooks by the Baron de Cabrol...
Thierry Coudert, Baron de Cabrol
Human figures depicted in art; Photographs: collections; History
Hardback
The glamorous aristocrats Daisy and Fred de Cabrol formed one of the most prominent twentieth-century high society couples... [more]
Roman Portraits - Sculptures in Stone and Bronze in the Collection of The...
Paul Zanker
History of art: ancient & classical art; Sculpture; Exhibition catalogues & specific collections; Portraits in art; History
Hardback
Portraits are among the most compelling artistic records of Greek and Roman culture. In this richly illustrated book featuring... [more]
The Complete Book of Poses for Artists: A comprehensive photographic and...
Ken Goldman, Stephanie Goldman
Drawing & drawings; Human figures depicted in art
Hardback
The Complete Book of Poses for Artists combines hundreds of photographs and illustrations helping demonstrate... [more]
Hockney's Portraits and People
Marco Livingstone, Kay Heymer
Art & Architecture; Art & design styles: from c 1960; Painting & paintings; Individual artists, art monographs; Portraits in art
Paperback
Explores different formal ways of representing the passage of time and at the same time the unavoidable but marvellous stillness... [more]
Selfie: The Changing Face of Self Portraits
Susie Brooks
Portraits in art; Art: general interest (Children's&YA)
Hardback
Think the 'selfie' is a modern phenomenon...? Think again! [more]
The Great Mother: Women, Maternity, and Power in Art and Visual Culture,...
Massimiliano Gioni, Giuliano Pisapia, Filippo Del Corno
History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Exhibition catalogues & specific collections; Human figures depicted in art; Gender studies: women
Paperback
In undertaking an analysis of the representation of motherhood, this book traces a history of women's empowerment, chronicling... [more]
Asian Lives: A Closer Look
Ishu Patel
Human figures depicted in art; Individual photographers; Photographic reportage; Social & cultural history
Hardback
In 2011, adhering to his mentor Henri Cartier-Bresson's mantra to 'photograph the truth', the author embarks on a photographic... [more]
Poem of the Pillow and other stories
Gian Carlo Calza
Oriental art; Erotic art
Paperback
A comprehensive and beautifully illustrated study of traditional Japanese erotic art. [more]
