Portraits

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501816604Author Richard P. HeitzenraterFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Abingdon PressPublisher Abingdon Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983854456Author Alejandro Garcia-LemosFormat HardbackPage Count 76Imprint Muddy Ford Press LLCPublisher Muddy Ford Press LLCWeight(grams) 408g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781796057829Author Flora McDonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Xlibris UsPublisher Xlibris UsWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 5mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925991833Author Gilbert PepperPage Count 82Imprint NoooBooksPublisher NooobooksWeight(grams) 328gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 10mm

As we approach the bicentennial, in 2017, of the birth of Henry David Thoreau, there is considerable debate and confusion as to what he may, or may not have, contributed to American life and culture. Almost every American has heard of Thoreau, but only a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943444502Author Jimmy AngelinaFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint New TexturePublisher New TextureWeight(grams) 907gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 279mm * 16mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798215355534Author Eddie ShermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Starfelia LtdPublisher Starfelia LtdWeight(grams) 249g

This latest volume in The Met’s acclaimed How to Read series explores the meaning of portraiture across time and cultures—from funerary masks to realism to abstraction Portraiture goes far beyond capturing a likeness. Portraits speak to such fundamental...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943444465Author Jimmy AngelinaFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint New TexturePublisher New TextureWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 165mm * 165mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948820264Author Stuart PerlmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Toku Publishing, LLCPublisher Toku Publishing, LLCWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925991932Author Gilbert PepperPage Count 48Imprint NoooBooksPublisher NooobooksWeight(grams) 457gDimensions(mm) 280mm * 216mm * 7mm

As we approach the bicentennial, in 2017, of the birth of Henry David Thoreau, there is considerable debate and confusion as to what he may, or may not have, contributed to American life and culture. Almost every American has heard of Thoreau, but only a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416567912Author Stephanie NolenFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint The Free PressPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 586g

Master painting lively figures and private portraits, with simple exercises and step-by-step demonstrations.Bestselling artist and author Hazel Soan explains how to create beautiful and engaging paintings of strangers and loved ones, with handy hints and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995957930Author Tracy ShepherdFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Library and Archives of CanadaPublisher Library and Archives of CanadaWeight(grams)...

This book explores various techniques, sources of inspiration, and creative processes that bring to life the unique visual expressions of portrait illustration. From detailed realism to expressive abstraction, each approach offers an opportunity to...

Each masterpiece in the series is a fascinating art-history novella and, at the same time, an invitation to the following tale, the next chapter in this never-ending cycle of astonishing stories, of which the museum has so many. Picasso produced this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956017222Author Helen CouchmanFormat HardbackPage Count 174Imprint Soloshow PublishingPublisher Soloshow Publishing

A major account of Renaissance portraiture by one of the twentieth century’s most eminent art historiansIn this book, John Pope-Hennessy provides an unprecedented look at two centuries of experiment in portraiture during the Renaissance. Pope-Hennessy...

This iteration of the American Encounters series addresses artists' conceptions of political and military authority through portraiture during and after North American and European revolutionary upheavals in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth...

Every day we are inundated with faces. Images of celebrities, acquaintances, and friends--in the news, on social networking sites, on the street--are constantly changing. Portraits, on the other hand, slow us down. They capture the artist's carefully...

Portraiture and Politics in Revolutionary France challenges widely held assumptions about both the genre of portraiture and the political and cultural role of images in France at the beginning of the nineteenth century. After 1789, portraiture came to...

The North Sea oil industry plays a vital role in the UK economy. Oil was first pumped ashore thirty years ago and based on current estimates there are still thirty further years of oil reserves to be claimed from the sea. This exhibition aims to capture...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683960591Author Drew FriedmanFormat HardbackPage Count 136Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

This book explores a range of experimental self-portraits made in France between 1840 and 1870, including remarkable images by Hippolyte Bayard, Nadar, Duchenne de Boulogne, and Countess de Castiglione. Adapting photography for different social purposes,...

This book analyzes the philosophical origins of dualism in portraiture in Western culture during the Classical period, through to contemporary modes of portraiture. Dualism - the separation of mind from body - plays a central part in portraiture, given...

Scotland has produced an astonishingly high number of men and women whose lives have inspired and changed the world. This book, illustrating just over forty portraits, represents only a few of them, but with Robert Burns and Walter Scott, Eric Liddell...

The cultural milieu in the "Age of Goethe" of eighteenth-century Germany is given fresh context in this art historical study of the noted writers' patroness: Anna Amalia, Duchess of Weimar-Sachsen-Eisenach. An important noblewoman and patron of...

According to folktales, ads, and toy stores, Santa Claus is always portly and joyous. But is it really true? What if Santa Claus has a hidden face, far removed from the cheery Christmas spirit? From the 30's to the 70's, this incredible gift book offers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940842288Author Stephen MillarFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Museyon GuidesPublisher Museyon Guides

The rise of democratic ideals and the burgeoning middle class of the late 19th and early 20th centuries precipitated an important surge in the prevalence of music in everyday life. Cafe concerts, dances, and operas all flourished in major cities across...

This richly illustrated book features an introduction by the National Portrait Gallery's chief curator and nearly 150 insightful entries on key self-portraits in the museum's collection. Eye to I provides readers with an overview of self-portraiture...

This book analyzes the philosophical origins of dualism in portraiture in Western culture during the Classical period, through to contemporary modes of portraiture. Dualism - the separation of mind from body - plays a central part in portraiture, given...

Portraits are everywhere. One finds them not only in museums and galleries, but also in newspapers and magazines, in the homes of people and in the boardrooms of companies, on stamps and coins, on millions of cell phones and computers. Despite its huge...

Starting with Helmar Lerski's outstanding photo series Metamorphose - Verwandlungen durch Licht from 1935/36, the magnificent volume Faces - The Power of the Human Visage presents portraits from the era of the Weimar Republic. The photographs taken by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588346940Author National Portrait GalleryFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 1g

Restoring the role of theatrical performance as both subject and trope in the aesthetics of self-representation, Staging the Artist questions how nineteenth-century French and Belgian artists self-consciously fashioned their identities through their art...

Numbering some 1,500 individual items and housed at over 80 historic properties across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, the collection of portrait miniatures cared for by the National Trust is considered to be one of the most significant in the world...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760763992Author Amber Creswell BellFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty LtdPublisher Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781032310183Author Gabriella GiannachiFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Taylor & Francis LtdPublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 453g