Portraits

Simon Schama brings Britain to life through its portraits, as seen in the five-part BBC series The Face of Britain and the major National Portrait Gallery exhibitionChurchill and his painter locked in a struggle of stares and glares; Gainsborough...

Brings together, for the first time, Lucian Freud's oil on copper paintings, including his lost portrait of Francis Bacon and two works that have never been reproduced before In the early 1950s, Lucian Freud produced several works in oil paint on copper,...

Girls being fearless. Girls being silly. Girls being wild, stubborn, and proud. Girls whose faces are smeared with dirt and lit up with joy. So simple and yet so powerful, Strong Is the New Pretty celebrates, through more than 175 memorable photographs,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524763503Author New York TimesFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Clarkson PotterPublisher Random House USA Inc

Using a series of 300 drawings and diagrams, the author analyzes the basic structure, anatomy and proportions of the human head. He delineates the musculature of every facial feature, explains wrinkle patterns and demonstrates how to draw the head from...

Is there more to portraiture than eyes meeting eyes? Beyond the Face: New Perspectives on Portraiture presents sixteen essays by leading scholars who explore the subtle means by which artists--and subjects--convey a sense of identity and reveal...

Lunch with the Financial Times has been a permanent fixture in the Financial Times for almost 25 years, featuring presidents, film stars, musical icons and business leaders from around the world. The column is now as well-established institution which...

This tiny yet majestic volume introduces us to some 250 queens who ruled in their own right - who were crowned as the sovereigns of their countries or, in some cases, decided to crown themselves. It begins with queens of the ancient world and ends with...

Despite his posthumous fame as a painter of flowers, still-lifes, gardens, landscapes and city scenes, during his lifetime Vincent van Gogh believed that his portraits constituted his most important works. Although as an artist he was 'touched by so many...

Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool accompanies the first career retrospective of the renowned American artist Barkley L. Hendricks. Hendricks was born in 1945 in Philadelphia. His unique work contains elements of both American realism and...

Providing the first thorough study of sculptural portraiture in 18th-century Britain, this important book challenges both the idea that portrait necessarily implies painting and the assumption that Enlightenment thought is manifest chiefly in French art...

A richly illustrated celebration of the paintings of President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama From the moment of their unveiling at the National Portrait Gallery in early 2018, the portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama have become two of the...

A tribute to the groundbreaking drag elders who helped pave the way for the queens of todayDrag has officially transcended the underground and exploded into the mainstream. Queens have more media representation than ever-in film, television, music,...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878468942Author Erica E HirshlerFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Museum of Fine Arts,BostonPublisher Museum of Fine Arts,Boston

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781600619700Author Lee HammondFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint North Light BooksPublisher F&W Publications Inc

A national pantheon of the greatest names in British history and culture, the Collection of the National Portrait Gallery contains more than 11,000 paintings, sculptures and works on paper and over a quarter of a million photographs. There are kings and...

This survey of Lawrence's first twenty-five years tells the story of an exceptional artist growing up at the end of the century as Britain created its own unique artistic voice. Like his Renaissance predecessors Raphael, Michelangelo and Durer, the...

A biography of the great portraitist Frans Hals that takes the reader into the turbulent world of the Dutch Golden Age. Frans Hals was one of the greatest portrait painters in history, and his style transformed ideas and expectations about...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947243651Author Creative ColoringFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Creative ColoringPublisher Creative ColoringWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 279mm...

Throughout the history of art most of the world's greatest artists have produced portraits at some point in their careers, whether commissioned by rulers or magnates; created to preserve a cherished friend or relation; or even to capture the artist's own...

Faces are everywhere in the National Gallery's collection: in portraits and narrative scenes, in allegories and paintings of everyday life. It is often the faces shown that communicate most directly in a picture; their expressions may reveal the drama of...

Caroline of Ansbach (1683-1737), Augusta of Saxe-Gotha (1719-1772), and Charlotte of Mecklenberg-Strelitz (1744-1818) were three German princesses who became Queens Consort-or, in the case of Augusta, Queen in Waiting, Regent, and Princess Dowager-of...

The Medici family ruled unofficially and later as dukes the city of Florence and Tuscany, from the end of 14th to the end of the 18th century. Under their patronage the Renaissance was born. The members of this powerful family were able to build their...

Italian court culture of the fifteenth century was a golden age, gleaming with dazzling princes, splendid surfaces, and luminous images that separated the lords from the (literally) lackluster masses. In Brilliant Bodies, Timothy McCall describes and...

Style Legends, Rebels, and Visionaries is an inclusive and eclectic collection of 50 illustrated portraits by the immensely talented artist Bijou Karman. This curated collection of portraits features vintage and contemporary style legends such as Cher,...

In this volume, Heather McPherson examines the connections among portraiture, theater, the visual arts, and fame to shed light on the emergence of modern celebrity culture in eighteenth-century England.Popular actors in Georgian London, such as David...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916515000Author Jeanette WintersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Eiderdown BooksPublisher Eiderdown Books

Building on the foundations set by our popular Art Fundamentals book, Beyond Fundamentals shows artists how to take their work a step beyond techniques and mechanics. A memorable, unique image requires more than just accurate anatomy and choosing the...

Hans Holbein the Younger is best known for his work in Henry VIII's England, where he painted portraits and designed decorative objects for courtly circles. England, however, only accounts for half of Holbein's working life. He developed his artistic...

Take a trip down memory lane to witness 22 years (1976-1998) of Mortimer's, one of the most notable restaurant hotspots that ever existed for an international celebrity clientele. Found in these pages is a feast of ephemera, including menus, recipes,...

'Selfies' are everywhere - from Kim Kardashian, queen of the selfie, to the Queen of England photobombing the Australian hockey team's selfie in 2014, you can't open a newspaper, or visit a news website, without seeing one. Recent technology, such as the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804189767Author George W. BushFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA...

Nas on language, Cat Power on looking inward, Spike Jonze on loving what you do and Kim Gordon on feeling the flow. These are just a few of the indie stars and surprising insights collected in this gorgeous book by Huck magazine .Since launching in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990864943Author Ryan WilksFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint 39 West PressPublisher 39 West PressWeight(grams) 91g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994456557Author Subhash JairethFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Recent Work PressPublisher Recent Work PressWeight(grams) 195g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987500342Author Jindrich (Henry) DegenFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Pathway PublishingPublisher Pathway PublishingWeight(grams) 229g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957899551Author Graham RendothFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Studioh!Publisher Studioh!Weight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982353301Author Brenda Dendy StroudFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint G PublishingPublisher G PublishingWeight(grams) 50g

Many of the sitters in this collection were John Singer Sargent's close friends. They are posed informally, sometimes in the act of painting or singing, and it is evident from the bold way they confront us that they are personalities of a creative stamp...