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Portraits in art
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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]
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]
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. 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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
The Portrait Sketchbook: Learn the art of drawing from the masters
Art & Architecture; Drawing & drawings; Portraits in art; Painting & art manuals
Paperback
An exercise book that will challenge all levels of artist in their pursuit of a true likeness, letting them hone their own... [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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Russia and the Arts: The Age of Tolstoy and Tchaikovsky
Rosalind P. Blakesley, Tatiana L. Karpova
Art & Architecture; History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; Painting & paintings; Portraits in art; Cultural studies
Paperback
Starting with the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1867, at which a distinct Russian school of painting was recognised,... [more]
This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today...
Anne Collins Goodyear, Jonathan Walz, Kathleen Campagnolo
History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Painting & paintings; Portraits in art
Hardback
The first in-depth exploration of the rise and evolution of abstract, symbolic, and conceptual portraiture in American art... [more]
Gerhard Richter - Brigid Polk: Koenigsklasse III
Sabine Knust, Tilman Spengler
Art & design styles: from c 1960; Painting & paintings; Individual artists, art monographs; Portraits in art
Paperback
In 1970 in Munich Gerhard Richter met Brigid Berlin alias Brigid Polk, Andy Warhol's legendary muse and enfant terrible of... [more]
